Gaze upon chocolate sculptures depicting everything from chariot races to Gaudí's famous church at this shrine to sweets.

Sleep in the hay, spin the wheel and eat grain pellets to your heart's delight.

Thousands of flamingos and other bird species flourish in these Camargue wetlands.

The Nobel-Prize-winning author of The Stranger is buried beneath a simple gravestone in a sleepy French village.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

Since 1920, one small company has defined the distinctive chairs of Paris' sidewalk bistros.

This stone memorial commemorates a group of French patriots slain by French fascists.

What if all public housing projects had been designed by "the Pygmalion of modern architecture," not only their prototype?

This Bordeaux parking garage has 712 indoor spaces, and one outdoor.

One man's stunning attempt at eco-friendly living.

An often-shuddersome journey into a low-tech, robotic themepark.

This miniature Paris, built out of trash, is one man's two decade labor of love.

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

These crumbling Nazi artillery bunkers are now fair game for massive graffiti projects.

A colossal sculptural lion built by the same man who designed the Statue of Liberty.

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

Sleep in a climate-controlled plastic bubble for the night.

Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.