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

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

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

Avant garde house of Pierre Cardin on the Cote d’Azur.

These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.

A French valley with forests so lush it was nicknamed "the Small Amazonia of the Pyrenees."

BDSM, 1930s Style.

A well-preserved medieval village nested on a rocky outcrop and surrounded by a network of cliffs, natural bridges and canyons.

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

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

This is what trains will look like after the zombie apocalypse.

This stunning natural double arch, the largest in the Alps, went undiscovered until 2005.

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

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

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

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

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

A Gothic cathedral created from volcanic rocks.

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

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.

The largest underground church in Europe.

The mental institution where Van Gogh created some of his most famous work now allows guests to walk in the artist's footsteps.

This natural French spring has been turned into a magical grotto by Roman and medieval constructions.

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.