A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

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

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

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

A simple plaque on the facade is the only reminder that the treaty ending the American Revolution was signed inside.

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

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

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

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

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

Montmartre's sole surviving windmill became an iconic landmark for 19th-century painters, artists, and bohemians.

A gruesome combat between a hunter and a furious momma bear.

Offal and flawless onion soup are on the menu at this restaurant that once catered to the workers of Les Halles.

Shop at the 200-year-old store where Julia Child stocked up on copper cookware.

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

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

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

After immigrating to Paris in the 1970s, two brothers from Laos built a grocery store empire.

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

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.