Mona Lisa Restaurant, the dim-lit French Quarter pizzeria with walls covered in renditions of Leonardo da Vinci’s 16-century ...

Paris' centuries-old Louvre Museum — home of da Vinci's iconic Mona Lisa — is getting an $800 million makeover, and American visitors will have to help pay for it.

And just as it’s hard to go to Paris without seeing the Louvre, it’s hard to go to the Louvre without seeing the Mona Lisa.