Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

One of the great treasures of Neolithic art lies within this carefully constructed pile of rocks.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

An isolated 17th-century chapel on a remarkable site once dedicated to Celtic sun worship.

A passage grave used in neolithic rituals.

A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.

A remote hilltop covered in giant monoliths haunts the Brittany countryside.

Exquisite examples prehistoric bas-relief carvings.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

Folklore and history carved into Brittany's coast.

A huge Megalithic chamber tomb located behind a cafe.

Figures of unknown origin carved into the surfaces of underground caves.

For those late-night mollusk cravings.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

Hundreds of prehistoric stones, arranged in perfect lines in a French field.