France's third-largest necropolis offers a peaceful respite from a busy port city.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

Large Hadron Collider and the Birthplace of World Wide Web.

A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

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

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

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

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

Explore the 500-year history of silk-making in Lyon at this museum, workshop, and boutique.

Inside this museum, Christians were imprisoned when the Romans controlled Gaul.

The first modern cemetery of Lyon is complete with more than 200 chapels and monuments.

Nicknamed the "Museum of Horrors," this French anatomical collection has been fascinating visitors for over a century.

A tiled, multi-level garden of survival in Lyon.

The site where the leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army was killed is now a memorial.