11 Cool and Unusual Things to Do in Marseille - Atlas Obscura

Unusual Attractions in Marseille

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Château d'If

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

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Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

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Rove Tunnel

Longest canal tunnel in the world, abandoned in the 1960s.

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Le Téléscaphe

For a brief time in 1960s France, families could climb into a tiny submarine and be pulled along an underwater journey.

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Unite d'Habitation and the Radiant City

What if all public housing projects had been designed by "the Pygmalion of modern architecture," not only their prototype?

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Fort of Ratonneau

A crumbling island fortress that seems to be covered in a field of stone crosses but is simply incomplete.

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Notre-Dame de la Garde's Nautical Ex-Voto

Sky ships, planes, and portraits left as unique tokens of hope and thankfulness.

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Monument Arthur Rimbaud

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

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