A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.

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

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.

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

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

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

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

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

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

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