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

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

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

A simple plaque on the facade is the only reminder that the treaty ending the American Revolution was signed inside.

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

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

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

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

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

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

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

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

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

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

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

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

The narrowest street in Paris.

Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.