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

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

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

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

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

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

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

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

San Francisco's first World's Fair, dedicated to the wonders of California.

This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.

Though the original building has been demolished, these massive bronze doors were saved.

This store is dedicated to unique found footage and the strangeness of pre-internet pop-culture.

An iconic location along the Los Angeles River where countless movie scenes are filmed.

This enormous World War II relic is one of the largest wooden structures in the world.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

The dramatic upward-curving roof is one of the most iconic examples of Googie architecture that still stands today.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.