A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

Executions were once held near this beautiful 18th-century fountain.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

The remains of the medieval wall that once surrounded Paris with ties to the construction of the Louvre.

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

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

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

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

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

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

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

A Beaux-Arts architectural surprise and a charming nostalgic tour through northern Mexico’s railway revolution.

Abandoned blockhouses from Nazi Germany's Atlantic Wall erode into the sea on a French beach.

Beneath the city of Lourdes, France is a massive, concrete church.

This narrow path was cut right into a French mountainside to feed the country's early naval expansion.

This futuristic observatory at the top of the Pyrénées offers unrivaled views.

A breathtaking canyon offers stunning views and frightful pathways through an ecological paradise.

Every half hour, the flow of this unusual spring cycles between a rush of water and barely a trickle.

A well-preserved medieval village nested on a rocky outcrop and surrounded by a network of cliffs, natural bridges and canyons.