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  Disneyland Paris, that bastion of culture - gets 12,4 million visitors a year

Eiffel Tower - Prepare to queue with the 5,9 million visitors a year

The Louvre Museum gets 5,7 million visitors a year – Most of them re-enacting the Da Vinci Code

Musée National d’Art Moderne et la Bibliothèque Publique (Pompidou Centre) receives around 5.3 million culture vultures a year

Château de Versaiile
on the outskirts of Paris is one of France’s most impressive locations and receives 2.9 million visitors a year

Musée d’Orsay
in Paris (art) gets around 1.8 million million visitors

Parc Astérix
- Theme Park northwest of Paris based on the Astérix and Obelix characters gets 1.8 million visitors

Lille Zoo
is a dark horse with 1.5 million visitors (site in French only)

The space aged Futuroscope Theme Park near Poitiers has its own TGV station and gets 1.2 million visitors a year

Le Puy du Fou
Theme Park south of Nantes does excellent re-enactments of conflicts throughout history. This is a theme park where you may actually learn something. Le Puy du Fou gets 1.1 million visitors a year. See list of themeparks