One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

This oddly shaped boulder in Paris is rumored to be cursed.

A giant silver apple a day keeps the perils of capitalism away.

Grab a life-changing ham sandwich at this former horse butchershop.

A tribute shrine where the Space Invasion street art movement started.

This mural painted by Keith Haring was done without payment as a gift to entertain the children at the Hôpital Necker.

A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

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

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

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

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

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

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

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

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

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

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

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

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