Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

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

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

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

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

Executions were once held near this beautiful 18th-century fountain.

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

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

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

A curious collection of locks and keys.

For more than a century, revolutionary graffiti has marked the wall of a Parisian church.

Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

The remains of the medieval wall that once surrounded Paris with ties to the construction of the Louvre.

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

One of three remaining theatres in the United States created in the Art Deco Mayan Revival style.

The final resting place of a prominent Black American farming family sits in the shadows of an IKEA store.