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

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

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

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

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

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

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

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

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

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

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

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

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

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