Montmartre

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDyfZEMDvFg

“how many meters vertical does this funicular have?”

Buttes Chaumont

http://www.skipass.com/news/index.php?action=portfolio&object_id=59881&start_index=0 -

Only the French can fully endorse this. In the uk we would be “tut tutting” this sort of behaviour and siting Health & safety issues. It has a certain “Je ne saia quoi”.