This medieval tower is all that remains of the castle where Joan of Arc was held before being burned at the stake.

There has been an astronomical clock on this spot since the 14th century.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.

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

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

A French valley with forests so lush it was nicknamed "the Small Amazonia of the Pyrenees."

BDSM, 1930s Style.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

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

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

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

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