March 5: Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine (City of Architecture and Patrimony)

I am not usually very compelled by architecture, and the most intense spatial analysis I perform is trying to answer the question “I wonder where they put the bathroom?” But the City of Architecture and Patrimony can change the mind of even the most architecture-adverse visitor with its carefully selected and well-signed collection of casts and models of characteristic (and weird) bits of French architecture from the middle ages to the present. Educational, visually compelling, and you get lovely views of the Eiffel Tower out of every window. Just go.