Marseille, France Château d'If This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

In 2004, Parisian police were assigned to do a training exercise in a previously uncharted part of the Catacombs of […]

Originally established by Napoleon, the cemetery languished in obscurity until its directors conducted an elaborate publicity campaign culminating in their […]

The massive Bibliothèque nationale de France is one of the grandest and most storied collections of printed material in the world. […]

The Petite Ceinture railway circling through the city of Paris served urban travelers from 1862 to 1934 before being abandoned. […]

Those who think that Hector Guimard was the only eccentric architect to produce Art Nouveau designs in the Paris will […]

When the Eiffel Tower opened in 1889 to much wonder and acclaim, designer Gustave Eiffel soaked up the praise, but […]