Created for the traveler who has little time or who only wants to see the major tourist spots (Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, Louvre, Luxembourg Gardens, Musée d'Orsay, Notre-Dame Cathedral, Père- Lachaise Cemetery, I'Opéra, Place des Vosges, Rodin Museum, Île Saint-Louis), these entries include general factoids about the sites as well as information linking them precisely to Vincent's life.

For example, while reading about the Eiffel Tower -its height, why it was built, the public's reaction to it-the reader also learns Vincent and Theo's youngest brother, Cor, worked on it as a labourer before committing suicide in South Africa.

They also visit the Rodin Museum where they see the three Van Gogh's Rodin purchased after Vincent's death and learn while Rodin was getting married in 1917, during the ceremony, he was lost in reverie looking at one of the van Gogh's and had to be prompted to say, "I do".