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

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

Two small chapels housed inside an ancient tree.

A natural arch carved by a river gave its name to the so-called "Cave of Forgotten Dreams."

A medieval military street hidden beneath a charming French fishing village.

This professional clown's home is an outsider art wonderland.

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.

These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

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

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

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

A Gothic cathedral created from volcanic rocks.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.