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

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

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

This recessed garden protects thousands of mountain plants by creating its own microclimates.

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

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

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

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

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

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

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

Sculpture of a legendary French dragon.

A unique underground structure dating back to the 1st century BC.

Thousands of flamingos and other bird species flourish in these Camargue wetlands.

When the imprisoned pope's remains were finally returned to the Vatican, his heart stayed behind in France.