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

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

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

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

A mud statue stands in the dark tunnels, seeming to hold up the weight of the city above.

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

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

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

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

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

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

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

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

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

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.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

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

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.