A melancholy jester sits on the grave of a famous 20th-century ballet dancer and choreographer.

Fully loaded, Tunisian-style sandwiches are on the menu at this unassuming hole-in-the-wall.

Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte were fans of this 200-year-old French chocolatier.

The site where two doves fell in love.

The heaviest gold coin ever minted.

The tombstone of an unfortunate explorer who disappeared in the Paris Catacombs.

Shop at the 200-year-old store where Julia Child stocked up on copper cookware.

This small, ingenious cannon once helped regulate Parisian life.

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

A tribute shrine where the Space Invasion street art movement started.

For more than a century, Parisians have come for affordable dishes in a grand converted train station.

Grab a life-changing ham sandwich at this former horse butchershop.

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

Marvel at the opulent Art Nouveau interior while dining on dirt-cheap French classics.

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.

This facility has manufactured stunning tapestries for France's royalty ever since the 17th century.

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

If you look closely at the oldest bridge in Paris, you might notice hundreds of ugly faces leering from its sides.

The storefront of a ramshackle Parisian puppet theater.

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

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

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

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