This narrow path was cut right into a French mountainside to feed the country's early naval expansion.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

This otherworldly French waterfall looks like its waters have turned to stone.

Jean Tinguely's bizarre monster sculpture is hidden deep in a forest.

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

Tens of thousands of ancient rock carvings hidden in the heart of a French national park.

These medieval ruins have survived since the 12th century, even providing shelter from the Nazis.

One man's desire to transcend art led to the construction of this outsider chapel.

The opulent home that inspired Tintin's Marlinspike Hall and the adventures within.

An Orthodox church built by the Royal Family for the Russian community exiled to the French Riviera.

French commune at the heart of conspiracies.

Figures of unknown origin carved into the surfaces of underground caves.

Green labyrinth formed by a karstic maze hidden in a preserved oak forest.

A massive, secret marina for the Nazis' most formidable weapon in the Atlantic.

A daring D-Day assault by U.S. Army Rangers is commemorated atop the high cliffs of this strategic point.

A remote hilltop covered in giant monoliths haunts the Brittany countryside.

A sanctuary for wolves in a community which once trembled in fear of the murderous "Beast of Gévaudan."

Walk through living pictures and music in the Cathedral of Images.

A colorful piece of contemporary art cheerfully clashes with Lyon's historical architecture.

Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.

Bordered by forest on three sides and the ocean on the other, the Great Dune of Pilat is the highest sand dune in Europe.

One architect's organic, human-centric design has been fully realized in this alien art house.

A neighborhood church's unusual abstract stained glass was the final project of avant-garde artist Jean Cocteau.

This 1,400-year-old abbey was once a powerhouse for music and intellectualism known across Normandy.