Now a memorial, this factory was once used as a concentration camp for artists by the Vichy government.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

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

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

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

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

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

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

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

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.

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

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

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

What if all public housing projects had been designed by "the Pygmalion of modern architecture," not only their prototype?

Balconies that have a most unusual accent.

700 iron sculptures crammed into a Mediterranean park.

Sky ships, planes, and portraits left as unique tokens of hope and thankfulness.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.