Just across from the "Last Supper" painting is the famous painter's vineyard, a gift received for creating the masterpiece.

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

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

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

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

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

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

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

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.