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

A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.

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

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

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

Dedicated to the history and culture of smoking, this small museum now includes a vape lounge.

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

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

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

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

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

A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

The personal library of the founder of modern neurology is open to visitors.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.