This anatomical sculpture raises awareness about violence against women and promotes gender equality.

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

This small red school was where Germany signed their surrender during WWII.

The world's largest solar furnace uses 10,000 mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays to generate power.

A massive, secret marina for the Nazis' most formidable weapon in the Atlantic.

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

To the famous surrealist artist, liberty required two torches held high.

One of the largest ochre quarries in the world, hidden in a limestone landscape.

An architectural oddity of six stories, accessed by graceful ramps.

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

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

This crumbling, graffiti-covered mansion sits tantalizingly within reach of the proletariat who frequent a public park.

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

The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

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

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

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

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

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.