Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

A hidden three-foot-wide house separates these two regal churches.

Elaborate tile work in this railway station tells the story of Portugal.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

This colorful but controversial ceiling has been likened to a 21st-century Sistine Chapel.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.