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

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

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

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

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

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

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