Arc de Triomphe
Place Charles de Gaulle, 75008 Paris
Napoleon commissioned this arch in 1806, right after his victory at Austerlitz, but he never got to walk through it as Emperor.
Eiffel Tower
Champ de Mars, 5 Avenue Anatole France, 75007 Paris
When Gustave Eiffel built this thing for the 1889 World's Fair, over 300 prominent Parisians — including Guy de Maupassant and Alexandre Dumas fils — signed a petition calling it a "metallic horror" that would disfigure Paris.
Sacré-Cœur Basilica
35 Rue du Chevalier de la Barre, 18th Arr., Paris, 75018, France
Sacré-Cœur is gorgeous, controversial, and impossible to ignore — it sits on the highest point in Paris like a giant meringue, visible from practically everywhere in the city.
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