This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

A Belle Epoque bordello turned into a themed love hotel.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

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

The formerly unmarked grave of the noted Black American painter, who was a friend to James Baldwin.

This workshop and small museum is dedicated to tiny, delicate figurines that began as a subversive craft after the French Revolution.

Former bridge turned into an observation tower.

This mysterious sculpture was thought to symbolize a world ravaged by misery.

A quaint medieval harbour where Benjamin Franklin landed in 1776.

Ride the rails on a train harkening back to a 19th-century marvel.

The precise origins of this pink sandstone temple are unknown.

Whether hero or rogue, his silver bullet is said to have taken down the murderous "Beast of Gevaudan."

The largest refracting telescope in Europe is housed on the grounds of a former French castle.

Celebrate the end of the Great French Wine Blight with a festival of kissing.

When the imprisoned pope's remains were finally returned to the Vatican, his heart stayed behind in France.

Live-in sculpture begun by one family in 1979.

The smallest port in France is named after the pirate who created it.

Abandoned outpost once home to a murderous tyrant.

This museum preserves over-the-top masterpieces that once qualified artisans for membership into a medieval guild.

A functioning Roman-era aqueduct and bridge in rural southwest France.

A snowy highland notorious for unexplained aircraft crashes is France's own Bermuda Triangle.

This abandoned church in central Lyon is missing its front stairs.

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