Le Passe-Muraille, Montmartre

A bronze man stuck halfway through a stone wall on Place Marcel Aymé in Montmartre, head, hands and one leg out of the masonry and the rest of him still inside it. He is the hero of Marcel Aymé's 1941 short story about a modest clerk who discovers he can walk through walls, until one day he can't. The actor Jean Marais, who also sculpted, made him in 1989 as a tribute to the writer. Visitors like to pose as if hauling him out of the wall, and his hand has been polished by all the people who have tried.