The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

This ancient Roman bridge and aqueduct still stands as a wonder of classical construction.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

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

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

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.