This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

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

One of Jeff Koons’s largest sculptures and his first commemorative work.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

This emotive sculpture was originally created for the 1878 World's Fair.

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

If you look closely at the oldest bridge in Paris, you might notice hundreds of ugly faces leering from its sides.

A glamorous hotel that once accommodated French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors.

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

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

A giant silver apple a day keeps the perils of capitalism away.

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

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

The oldest continuously operating mint in the world that has been making coins since the 9th-century.

The approximate spot where the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was put to death.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

This small, ingenious cannon once helped regulate Parisian life.

An unassuming London park is actually a pilgrimage site for modern clowns.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.