The writer took refuge in this home in Southern France for the last 17 years of his life.

Every year, the town of Menton, France, turns lemons and oranges into giant sculptures depicting windmills, dragons, and more.

An abandoned beach resort in Normandy reclaimed by artists.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

This fascinating abbey is considered the oldest monastery in the region.

This mosque was based on Sub-Saharan Islamic architecture and created for the Senegalese Tirailleurs.

This bunker in northern France was built by Nazi German forces with the intention of launching up to 50 V2 rockets at London each day.

The shape of this old salt factory complex was inspired by the course of the Sun.

This hidden workshop is filled with molds of France's most iconic sculptures.

The castle where the Marquis de Sade lived out his darkest fantasies.

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

A sandstone block marks the alleged spot where the legendary writer was conceived.

The ruins stand as a somber reminder of France’s worst civil catastrophe of the 20th century.

"Drunken ship" sculpture memorializing the French poet in the city where he died.

Once the hottest nightclub in France, Amnesia now lies in ruins after a 2000 bombing.

A resort destroyed by a mysterious bombing offers visitors only its remains and the riddle behind it's demise.

This small commune with an even smaller name appears to have an unlikely amount of dead ancestors.

Admire endangered plants in a verdant garden that looks straight out of a Monet painting.

Antique cinematography artifacts fill this museum dedicated to the inventors of the moving picture.

This striking fort on the Maginot Line looks just as it did after being destroyed in the Fall of France.

Half a century after it was abandoned, this ghost town is coming back to life.

Napoleon's childhood home is now open for people to explore the beginnings of France's short general.

The ruins of an abandoned cemetery are among the last remnants of the old village of La Boulaye before a wealthy landowner had it relocated.

One of the most powerful religious centers in the Middle Ages, dubbed the founder of Western monasticism.