There is a strange little carving of a person seemingly crushed by a pillar behind the remains of St. Thomas Aquinas.

A very uncommon water tank standing in the middle of the grapevines in Bordeaux nearly a century after its construction.

Lady Liberty's original designer installed a little clone in this French fountain.

This Bordeaux parking garage has 712 indoor spaces, and one outdoor.

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

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

Montmartre's sole surviving windmill became an iconic landmark for 19th-century painters, artists, and bohemians.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

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

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

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

For more than a century, revolutionary graffiti has marked the wall of a Parisian church.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

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

The narrowest street in Paris.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

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