Love impressionist art? Then put down the croissant and get your derriere to the Marmottan Monet!

This building houses over three hundred impressionist and post-impressionist paintings, one hundred of which are by Claude Monet himself. Now filled with beautiful paintings of sunsets and flowers, the house was originally a hunting lodge. I imagine it filled with guns and taxidermy animals, a true man cave. We’ll take portraits of ladies in pretty dresses, thankyouverymuch.

In 1985, Musee Marmottan Monet experienced quite an art theft. Five masked gunmen burst into the museum and held the security guards and visitors up at gunpoint. They proceeded to grab nine paintings, including Monet’s Impression, Sunrise, the painting from which the impressionist movement got its name! Quel horreur! These paintings were valued at about $12 million. Luckily, the work was soon recovered when a tip led the police to the doorstep of Shuinichi Fujikuma, a Japanese gangster who had recently served time for trafficking heroin. From heroin to art, I'd say he’s moving on up in the world.