Sacred Spaces in Paris

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

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

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

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

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

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

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.