An image of the legendary saint stands in the shadow of a cathedral she liberated.

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

This emotive sculpture was originally created for the 1878 World's Fair.

Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

The approximate spot where the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was put to death.

If you look closely at the oldest bridge in Paris, you might notice hundreds of ugly faces leering from its sides.

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

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

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

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

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

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 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

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

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

Albert Einstein's head sticks out of a snail shell stacked on a rocket in this truly bizarre monument to the scientist.