A pair of 7-foot legs belonging to the military man of the Mayflower stand jauntily by the side of the road.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

This facility has manufactured stunning tapestries for France's royalty ever since the 17th century.

This Parisian café is dedicated to great tea and the art of knitting.

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

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

This recessed garden protects thousands of mountain plants by creating its own microclimates.

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.

The narrowest street in Paris.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

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

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.