Explore Versailles

The Musée Bourdelle preserves the working studio of sculptor Antoine Bourdelle, who used it from 1885 until his death in 1929, at 18 Rue Antoine Bourdelle. It opened as a museum in 1949 and was later extended by architects Henri Gautruche and Christian de Portzamparc. The collection holds more than 500 of his plaster, marble and bronze works.

A military museum inside the Hôtel des Invalides, a complex Louis XIV ordered built in 1670 to house disabled soldiers. Formed in 1905 from two older collections, it covers military history from antiquity to the Second World War, and its Dome Church holds Napoleon's tomb, completed in 1861, twenty years after his remains returned from Saint Helena.

The Musée Rodin occupies the Hôtel Biron, an 18th-century mansion in the 7th arrondissement, and its surrounding garden. It holds the sculptor Auguste Rodin's work, including bronze casts of The Thinker and The Gates of Hell displayed outdoors. The museum opened in 1919, after Rodin donated his collection to the French state.

The Champs-Élysées is an avenue running about 1.9 kilometres between Place de la Concorde and the Arc de Triomphe, lined with plane trees, shops, cinemas and cafés. Laid out as a garden promenade in the 17th century, it took its present form through 19th-century redevelopment.

A single-span steel arch bridge over the Seine in Paris, built between 1896 and 1900 and named for Tsar Alexander III of Russia, who had signed the Franco-Russian Alliance in 1892. Its Beaux-Arts design by Joseph Cassien-Bernard and Gaston Cousin carries Art Nouveau lamps and four gilt-bronze statues of Fames at the approaches.

A glass-roofed exhibition hall in Paris's 8th arrondissement, built for the 1900 Universal Exposition on the site of the former Palace of Industry. Its Beaux-Arts stone facades and iron-and-glass vaults, renovated and reopened in 2025, now host temporary art exhibitions and events.

The Musée de la Libération de Paris – Musée du Général Leclerc – Musée Jean Moulin occupies former toll pavilions at Place Denfert-Rochereau, above the bunker that served as Colonel Rol-Tanguy's command post in August 1944. It moved to this address in 2019 and covers the liberation of Paris and the wartime Resistance.

A Beaux-Arts palace built for the 1900 World's Fair by architect Charles Girault, facing the Grand Palais across Avenue Winston-Churchill. It houses the City of Paris Museum of Fine Arts, with collections spanning antiquity to the 20th century, including the Dutuit collection of medieval and Renaissance works and the Tuck collection of 18th-century furniture.

The Catacombs of Paris are underground ossuaries beneath the city's former stone quarries, reached from a small entrance pavilion near Place Denfert-Rochereau. From 1786, the remains of more than six million people were moved here from Paris's overflowing cemeteries. A signed route leads visitors through about 1.5 kilometres of tunnels lined with bones.