Grottoes, sculptures, and recycled ceramics permeate what was once just a small farm in France.

The castle where the Marquis de Sade lived out his darkest fantasies.

This remarkable checkered church on a Corsican hilltop is fabled to have been built by angels.

Nearly every wall in this French villa has been "tattooed" by artist Jean Cocteau and other famous painters.

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

This stone quarry was used to make axes and other tools more than 6,000 years ago.

One of the last realized projects of an influential, self-taught, French Modernist architect Jacques Couëlle.

César Baldaccini's iconic sculpture of a 40-foot thumb stands tall in La Défense.

An astounding collection of taxidermy, fossils, skeletons, and even a few strange live beasts.

These rustic holiday homes are made from discarded fishing boat hulls.

At this monastery, monks make raw-milk cheese and use excess whey to create methane that powers their hot-water system.

Shattered columns and Egyptian pyramids outside of Paris.

This historic stone gate tower is now just a lonely relic in the middle of a swamp.

Once the hottest nightclub in France, Amnesia now lies in ruins after a 2000 bombing.

A place to see how French aristocrats lived in the early 1900s.

Rows of multicolored bathing huts paint the sand dunes with pops of color.

Peeing dogs guard the Roman hunting goddess atop a fountain at France’s Château de Fontainebleau.

A resort destroyed by a mysterious bombing offers visitors only its remains and the riddle behind it's demise.

A medieval house adorned with enigmatic carvings, including one of a man displaying his masculine attributes.

This symbol of the French Revolution still stands where it was first planted during the 18th-century.

Balconies that have a most unusual accent.

The man who introduced reinforced concrete to the world demonstrated its genius by using it to build his own house.

Antique cinematography artifacts fill this museum dedicated to the inventors of the moving picture.

The storefront of a ramshackle Parisian puppet theater.