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

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

A 14th century bridge built as a fortress, where the devil lurks on one of its towers.

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

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

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

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

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

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

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

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

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

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

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

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

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