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

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

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

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

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

The post-apocalyptic remnants of a bucolic town ruined by a plane crash.

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

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

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

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

Peruse produce from Senegal, Cameroon, and other West African nations at this sprawling market.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

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

Montmartre's sole surviving windmill became an iconic landmark for 19th-century painters, artists, and bohemians.

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

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

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

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

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

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

Before the electric telegraph, a chain of stone towers carried messages across France.

Today this former Nazi concentration camp stands as a poignant memorial to the victims of fascism, and a warning from history.

Lyon's miniature version of the Eiffel Tower was built as a statement in support of French secularism.

Italian poet Dante Alighieri is entombed in this small mausoleum in Ravenna, and his hometown of Florence has never been too happy about it.