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

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

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

A curious collection of locks and keys.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

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

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

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

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

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

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

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

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

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

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

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

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

Dolls of all shapes and sizes display the eras of femininity in this spooky and beautiful collection.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

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

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.