Public outcry led to this bridge's unique character which celebrates a giant frog battle and also sewing.

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

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

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

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

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

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

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

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

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

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This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

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

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

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

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

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