Notre Dame (Quasimodo is up there somewhere). Construction started in 1163, and wasn't completed until around 1345 - almost 200 years later. Notre Dame was one of the first Gothic cathedrals, and is widely considered one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture in the world.

The Louvre Museum! The Louvre was constructed as a fortress in the early 13th century, rebuilt in the 16th, and became a museum in 1793. When it opened as a museum it contained some 2500 paintings, sculptures, and other bric-a-brac. Today it has some 35,000 exhibits on display including Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, which was actually stolen in 1911 but later recovered hehe.

"On August 21, 1911, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, one of the most famous paintings in the world, was stolen right off the wall of the Louvre (famous museum in Paris, France). It was such an inconceivable crime that the Mona Lisa wasn't even noticed missing until the following day." - hahaha!

The main entrance to the Louvre is through the large glass and metal pyramid, known as the Grande Pyramide. The main pyramid stands at 21metres high, and is surrounded by three smaller pyramids. They were completed in 1989 and, much like when the Eiffel Tower was constructed, they pissed a lot of people off due their futuristic look against the more classical architecture of the Louvre.

There are always a lot of these flying overhead in Europe, leaving jet streams all over the sky.

En route to the Champs-Élysées.

The Avenue des Champs-Élysées. It has a cool name, and is a very prestigious avenue chock full of cinemas, cafes, restaurants, luxury specialty shops, and lined with chestnut trees (and eight-lanes of traffic).

Notre Dame and surrounds by evening, shot during a night cycle tour.

The Louvre. No Photoshop'ing was done to this (aside from shrinking it) - this is exactly how it looks by night. Beautiful!

The Arc de Triomphe (in honour of those who fought for France during the Napoleonic Wars), surrounded by the world's largest traffic roundabout (as was seen from the Eiffel Tower earlier). This was commissioned by Napoleon in 1806 to commemorate his victories, but it remained unfinished when he started losing battles and then entire wars hahaha! It wasn't completed until 1836.

The Eiffel Tower, absolutely gorgeous by night, as seen from the Seine during a boat cruise up and down the river that was part of an evening cycle tour.