France #1 in Best Places ... white-domed basilica is beautiful, and a true icon in Paris's skyline. Inside, it's genuinely mesmerizing, with its Byzantine architecture and huge, cobalt-blue mosaic.

The balloon will lift off into the sky each summer evening from June 21 to Sept. 14, for the next three years.

These games signal the return of crowds following two COVID-dampened Olympics. About 220,000 invited and security-screened spectators are expected to fill the upper tiers of the Seine’s banks… ...

Paris, France, June 30, 1958: A visitor to the roof of the Arc de Triomphe gazes out at another Paris landmark. ... Paris skyline, 1958 Stars and Stripes ...

These games signal the return of crowds following two COVID-dampened Olympics. About 220,000 invited and security-screened spectators are expected to fill the upper tiers of the Seine’s banks… ...