An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

The world's tallest bridge is also possibly the most elegant.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

This ancient Roman bridge and aqueduct still stands as a wonder of classical construction.

This stunning French estate was so lavish that it landed its original owner in jail for the rest of his life.

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

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

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

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

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

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

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.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

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

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

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