Last week, moments after an Airbus 320 lifted off from Charles de Gaulle airport and rose through the atmosphere, the jetliner's captain whipped out a camera and snapped a series of photos of ...

When Félix Nadar decided he wanted to take photographs of Paris from a hot air balloon in 1855, the idea of aerial photography was, for pretty much everyone else, a faraway dream.

When you're on the ground, Paris 's monuments sparkle in their classic glory, but even from above, these sites still awe. Take a tour of Paris's best attractions from a view you probably haven't ...