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

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

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

A mud statue stands in the dark tunnels, seeming to hold up the weight of the city above.

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

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

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

The narrowest street in Paris.

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

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

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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

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

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

The Byzantine, pre-Columbian, and medieval art at this stately mansion are some of the most under-appreciated collections in D.C.

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.