Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

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

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

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

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

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

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.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

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