Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

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

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

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

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

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

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

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

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

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