Order a boozy baba au rhum at the oldest patisserie in Paris.

This facility has manufactured stunning tapestries for France's royalty ever since the 17th century.

If you look closely at the oldest bridge in Paris, you might notice hundreds of ugly faces leering from its sides.

The storefront of a ramshackle Parisian puppet theater.

During the summer months, giant teddy bears take over Paris near Les Gobelins metro station.

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

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

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

Dedicated to the history and culture of smoking, this small museum now includes a vape lounge.

The approximate spot where the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was put to death.

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

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

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

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

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

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

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

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

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

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

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.