Jardin du Luxembourg
The Left Bank's grandest formal garden, surrounding the Luxembourg Palace (now the French Senate), with a central pond, a puppet theatre and shaded chestnut alleys popular with students and locals alike.
Jardin des Plantes & Ménagerie
Paris's oldest botanical garden and one of the world's oldest zoos, home to the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle's landmark Grande Galerie de l'Évolution.
Jardin des Tuileries
Paris's oldest public garden, running between the Louvre and Place de la Concorde, with Rodin and Giacometti sculptures scattered among its formal French landscaping.
Canal Saint-Martin
A tree-lined 19th-century canal through northeastern Paris, its iron footbridges and working locks giving the 10th arrondissement's cafés and boutiques a distinctly unhurried, local feel.
Promenade Plantée (Coulée Verte René-Dumont)
The world's first elevated park, built along a disused 19th-century railway viaduct in the 12th arrondissement, running 4.7 kilometres from Bastille toward the Bois de Vincennes.
Bois de Vincennes & Château de Vincennes
Paris's largest park, on the eastern edge of the city, home to a genuine medieval royal fortress with Europe's tallest surviving keep.
Passages Couverts (Galerie Vivienne & Passage des Panoramas)
Paris's surviving 19th-century covered shopping arcades, glass-roofed precursors to the modern shopping mall, best explored as a linked walk through the 2nd arrondissement.
Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie
Europe's largest science museum, set in the Parc de la Villette, with a giant mirrored geodesic cinema dome, a submarine you can tour, and hands-on exhibits built for curious minds of every age.
Montmartre & Place du Tertre
Paris's hilltop 'village,' with cobbled lanes, the last working vineyard in the city, and Place du Tertre's square of portrait artists just steps from Sacré-Cœur.
Seine River Cruise
A one-hour sightseeing cruise past Notre-Dame, the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower — the easiest way to see central Paris's riverside landmarks in one sitting, day or night.
Marché des Enfants Rouges
Paris's oldest covered market, established in 1615 in the Marais, where stalls serving Lebanese, Japanese, Italian and Moroccan food sit alongside fresh produce vendors under a slate roof.
Les Puces de Saint-Ouen
The world's largest antiques market, spread across seven hectares just north of Paris, with over 2,000 dealers spanning vintage furniture, art, jewellery and curiosities.
Champs-Élysées
The 1.9-kilometre avenue linking the Arc de Triomphe to Place de la Concorde — Paris's grandest shopping street and one of the world's most famous boulevards.