An effigy of a trapped paratrooper dangles from a Normandy church to commemorate one remarkable D-Day event.

Rows of multicolored bathing huts paint the sand dunes with pops of color.

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

This striking fort on the Maginot Line looks just as it did after being destroyed in the Fall of France.

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

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

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

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

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

Executions were once held near this beautiful 18th-century fountain.

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

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

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

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

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