This small Japanese street is lined with figures, sculptures and a shrine dedicated to frogs.

If you look closely at the oldest bridge in Paris, you might notice hundreds of ugly faces leering from its sides.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

A glamorous hotel that once accommodated French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

This emotive sculpture was originally created for the 1878 World's Fair.

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

Antique cinematography artifacts fill this museum dedicated to the inventors of the moving picture.

Explore the 500-year history of silk-making in Lyon at this museum, workshop, and boutique.

Lyon's "Wall of the Silk Weavers" is one of the largest murals in Europe.

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.