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

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

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

The narrowest street in Paris.

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

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

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

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

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

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

This recessed garden protects thousands of mountain plants by creating its own microclimates.

This lesser-known Frank Gehry building houses a treasure trove of cinema history.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

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

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

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

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

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

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

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

During the summer months, giant teddy bears take over Paris near Les Gobelins metro station.

Collection of antique taxidermy and natural specimens, near one of Paris's oldest flea markets.