A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

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

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.

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

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

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

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The narrowest street in Paris.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

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

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

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