An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

Since ancient times these picturesque springs have been providing bathers with healing waters.

An ancient monastery, a locked room, and a mysterious book heist.

Museum in a swimming pool where the water still flows.

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

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

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

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

A Gothic cathedral created from volcanic rocks.

The largest underground church in Europe.

A 14th century bridge built as a fortress, where the devil lurks on one of its towers.

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

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

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.

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

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

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

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

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.