The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

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

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

The historic Masonic Lodge in which the first-ever female Mason was initiated.

A gruesome combat between a hunter and a furious momma bear.

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

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

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

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

A simple plaque on the facade is the only reminder that the treaty ending the American Revolution was signed inside.

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

This mural painted by Keith Haring was done without payment as a gift to entertain the children at the Hôpital Necker.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

The oldest continuously operating mint in the world that has been making coins since the 9th-century.

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

Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.

The narrowest street in Paris.

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

A glamorous hotel that once accommodated French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

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

One of Jeff Koons’s largest sculptures and his first commemorative work.

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