The 31 Best Landmarks in Paris

Postcard icons pull in millions of visitors a year, while a few of these spots are easy to walk straight past on a stroll.

1. 1
   Eiffel Tower

   Gustave Eiffel's wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars, built for the 1889 World's Fair and now the symbol of France.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Louvre Museum

   The world's most-visited art museum, a former royal palace fronted by I. M. Pei's glass pyramid and home to the Mona Lisa.
   926pts
3. 3
   Conciergerie

   A former royal palace and Revolutionary prison on the Seine where Marie Antoinette was held before her execution.
   832pts
4. 4
   Moulin Rouge

   The 1889 cabaret in Pigalle with its red windmill, birthplace of the modern can-can.
   741pts
5. 5
   Musée d'Orsay

   A Beaux-Arts railway station turned museum holding the world's greatest collection of Impressionist art.
   680pts
6. 6
   Place Vendôme

   An octagonal 17th-century square of luxury jewelers centered on a bronze column made from cannons captured at Austerlitz.
   680pts
7. 7
   Petit Palais

   An elegant 1900 exhibition palace opposite the Grand Palais, now the free city museum of fine arts.
   611pts
8. 8
   Notre-Dame de Paris

   The Gothic cathedral on the Île de la Cité, begun in 1163 and reopened in December 2024 after the 2019 fire.
   610pts
9. 9
   Centre Pompidou

   The inside-out 1977 cultural center by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, home to Europe's largest modern art collection.
   610pts
10. 10
    Champs-Élysées

    The grand tree-lined avenue running from Place de la Concorde to the Arc de Triomphe, site of parades and the Tour de France finish.
    610pts
11. 11
    Pont Alexandre III

    An ornate Belle Époque bridge with gilded statues and lamps linking the Invalides to the Grand Palais.
    610pts
12. 12
    Sainte-Chapelle

    A 13th-century royal chapel famous for its soaring walls of stained glass, built by Louis IX on the Île de la Cité.
    610pts
13. 13
    Panthéon

    A neoclassical domed mausoleum in the Latin Quarter where Voltaire, Victor Hugo and Marie Curie are buried.
    610pts
14. 14
    Luxembourg Garden

    The formal Left Bank garden of the Luxembourg Palace, loved for its fountains, statues and green chairs.
    529pts
15. 15
    Sacré-Cœur Basilica

    The white-domed Romano-Byzantine basilica crowning the hill of Montmartre with sweeping views over the city.
    433pts
16. 16
    Place des Vosges

    The oldest planned square in Paris, a symmetrical 17th-century ensemble of red-brick houses in the Marais.
    433pts
17. 17
    Tour Montparnasse

    A 210-meter Left Bank skyscraper whose rooftop terrace offers the city's best view of the Eiffel Tower.
    433pts
18. 18
    Les Invalides

    Louis XIV's military hospital complex whose golden dome shelters Napoleon's tomb.
    433pts
19. 19
    Arènes de Lutèce

    A 1st-century Gallo-Roman amphitheater in the Latin Quarter, one of the oldest monuments in the city.
    433pts
20. 20
    Grand Palais

    A vast Beaux-Arts exhibition hall with a glass-and-steel roof, built for the 1900 Universal Exposition.
    317pts
21. 21
    Trocadéro

    The Palais de Chaillot and its esplanade across the Seine, the classic viewpoint for photographing the Eiffel Tower.
    317pts
22. 22
    Palais Garnier

    Charles Garnier's opulent 1875 opera house, the setting of The Phantom of the Opera.
    317pts
23. 23
    Pont Neuf

    Despite its name, the oldest standing bridge across the Seine in Paris, completed in 1607.
    317pts
24. 24
    Tuileries Garden

    The historic garden between the Louvre and Place de la Concorde, laid out by André Le Nôtre.
    317pts
25. 25
    Catacombs of Paris

    Underground ossuaries holding the remains of more than six million Parisians in former limestone quarries.
    317pts
26. 26
    Hôtel de Ville

    The neo-Renaissance city hall that has housed the Paris municipal government since 1357.
    317pts
27. 27
    La Madeleine

    A church built like a Greek temple, with 52 Corinthian columns, commissioned by Napoleon as a monument to his army.
    317pts
28. 28
    Place de la Bastille

    The square where the Bastille prison stood until 1789, now marked by the gilded July Column.
    317pts
29. 29
    Arc de Triomphe

    Napoleon's triumphal arch atop the Champs-Élysées, sheltering the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
    0pts
30. 30
    Place de la Concorde

    The city's largest square, site of the guillotine during the Revolution and now home to the Luxor Obelisk.
    0pts
31. 31
    Père Lachaise Cemetery

    The city's largest cemetery, resting place of Jim Morrison, Édith Piaf, Oscar Wilde and Chopin.
    0pts

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