Lady Liberty's original designer installed a little clone in this French fountain.

A small town hallucinates en masse - Bad bread, or CIA science project?

Guests can stay at a hotel in the former French abbey where lie the tombs of King Henry II and King Richard the Lionheart.

The birthplace of the ferocious William the Conqueror, this castle is awash in medieval history.

For over 300 years this little carving has been the city’s good luck charm.

The ruins of a medieval castle linked to the murderous French lord that inspired the famous legend of Bluebeard.

The opulent home that inspired Tintin's Marlinspike Hall and the adventures within.

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

This crumbling, graffiti-covered mansion sits tantalizingly within reach of the proletariat who frequent a public park.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

The largest underground church in Europe.

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

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

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

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

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