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

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

This lesser-known Frank Gehry building houses a treasure trove of cinema history.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

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

This mural painted by Keith Haring was done without payment as a gift to entertain the children at the Hôpital Necker.

A letterpress workshop committed to the art of printing, with unique and creative designs.

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

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

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

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

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

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

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

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

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

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

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

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

This Algerian sweet shop serves confections in an eye-popping array of hues.