Guests can stay at a hotel in the former French abbey where lie the tombs of King Henry II and King Richard the Lionheart.

Bordered by forest on three sides and the ocean on the other, the Great Dune of Pilat is the highest sand dune in Europe.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

The post-apocalyptic remnants of a bucolic town ruined by a plane crash.

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

Hundreds of secret cabinets built into the walls of legendary poisoner's private work room.

The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.

The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.

The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

A 14th century bridge built as a fortress, where the devil lurks on one of its towers.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

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

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

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

Inside the Wayne County airport is an amazing collection of lights and sounds.

This newly renovated Soviet-era outdoor exhibition center is bigger than the principality of Monaco.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.