135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

Fighting the British and making game shows for over 150 years.

During the summer months, giant teddy bears take over Paris near Les Gobelins metro station.

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

France's high-tech, future-themed amusement park.

A unique underground structure dating back to the 1st century BC.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

A French library that makes sure its love of books is writ large... giant in fact.

This ancient theater was once the home of fierce gladiatorial battles.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

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

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

A Gothic cathedral created from volcanic rocks.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

After immigrating to Paris in the 1970s, two brothers from Laos built a grocery store empire.

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

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

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

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.