Paris is a visual and cultural feast for sure and everyone will have their different take on what they consider the City of Light's top lures for them. What are yours?

I'll start:

1- The Eiffel Tower - ascending to the 3rd floor.

2- The Louvre

3 - Notre-Dame Cathedral

4- Versailles (some will say it is not in Paris but IMO it is - only a short metro/RER ride away)

5- Gare d'Orsay Museum

6- Luxembourg Gardens

7- Tuileries Gardens and Courtyard of the Louvre

8- Montmartre

9- Seine boat cruise

10- Place del la Concorde from above view from Tuileries Gardens - with view up the Champs-Elysees to the Arc de Triomphe

ET TOI?

1-Le Sacre Coeur

2-Saint Denis Cathedral

3-Notre Dame

4-Montmartre

5-The Eiffel Tower

6-The Arch of Thriomphe

7-La Seine, just walking or view from a boat

8-Le Louvre

9-Museum D'Orsay

10-The Tuileries Garden

1. Strolling hand in hand along the Seine at midnight during the Paris Plage with the Eiffel Tower twinkling off in the distance.

2. Taking in all the beautiful old architecture of the buildings.

3. Standing nose to nose with a gargoyle after climbing 478 steps to the top of Notre Dame.

4. Listening to the street musicians playing on the bridges spanning the Seine.

5. Watch as the sun streams through the stained glass windows of St. Chappelle

6. Exiting the Louvre after dark onto the dimly lit courtyard.

7. Eating your picnic lunch in the Luxembourg gardens.

8. Taking in all the sights and sounds and smells of a street market.

9. Wandering the narrow streets and alleyways in the Montmarte district while eating your first crepe.

10. Looking down on the Champes Elysees from the top of the Arc de Triomphe.

1. Eiffel Tower twinkling at night

2. Musee D'Orsay--- Beautiful building and amazing art

3. Saint Chappelle-- the windows take your breath away.

4. L'Orangerie

5. Marmottan--- I love this museum! Great neighborhood stroll too.

6. Walking along the Seine

7. Street markets

8. Notre Dame

9. Louvre

10. Sacre Coeur

1. Musee Rodin

2. Musee D'Orsay

3. Jardin du Luxembourg

4. Pont des Arts

5. Place des Vosgues

6. Victor Hugo's house

7. Blvd St Michel (and the little apartment we had there)

8. strolling the streets without a particular plan.

9. Catching random sights of the Eiffel Tower

10 Arriving in Paris!

Eglise St Germain des Pres
St Sulpice
Jardin des Plantes
Jardin Luxembourg
Bookstalls along the Seine
Pont des Artes

Musee Rodin

Pere Lachaise – many of the hauntingly beautiful Holocaust memorials, various art deco sculptures

Notre Dame at night

The view from a late night boat trip on the Seine

Pompidou exhibits (not the building itself)

Eiffel Tower

Nagasaki Angel in UNESCO garden

Pont Alexandre III bridge

1. Top of the Arch de Triomphe at night

2. Pere Lachaise

3. Musee Nissim de Camondo

4. Musee D'Orsay

5. Entering the Tuilleries from Place de Concorde (crepe in hand) and walking through it to the Louvre

6. Walking the maze-like streets of the Marais

7. Musee Rodin

8. Lunch on a bench in the little park behind the Notre Dame

9. Port de Vanves flea market on Saturday morning

10. Foie Gras, fresh baguette, cafe creme, kir royale, macaroons, profiteroles...

I am quite surprised that nobody other than myself mentioned Saint Denis Cathedral, which is the burial ground of many kings of France.

This cathedral become the favourites of many members of my family.

Well I think Saint-Denis is off the radar of American tourists for sure but is such a remarkable historic place that we should consider it a top sight - I went there long ago and found the basilica at that time really grimy on the outside and in a dicey looking area. You post has made me want to go back next time in Paris to have a look - I assume the exterior has been cleaned up, etc. And Saint-Denis is easy to get to my metro - thanks for posting that - gives me another place to hit next time with anticipation.

A cafe on a busy intersection, a bottle of an adult beverage, and plenty of "scenery" walking by.

The inside of the dome of Galeries Lafayette.

Walking Faubourg Saint-Honore looking in the windows, seeing the expression in my wife's face, wishing I could say "Sure" to what she points at.

Seeing the lights turn on at the Eiffel Tower.

The quiet elegant casualness of the city - wondering how I could copy back home.

Yes Pal..the neighborhood around the Cathedral is a blue collar working class is not very pretty .There are few places to eat around the plaza,few clothings store and a large grocery store.

I am going back to Paris in September and will try to visit the Cathedral once again.