French commune at the heart of conspiracies.

To the famous surrealist artist, liberty required two torches held high.

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

Perfume museum and library.

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

Trek into the depths of the cave where 17,000-year-old paintings exist alongside 400-year-old graffiti.

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

Nicknamed the "Museum of Horrors," this French anatomical collection has been fascinating visitors for over a century.

An isolated 17th-century chapel on a remarkable site once dedicated to Celtic sun worship.

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

This ancient theater was once the home of fierce gladiatorial battles.

This medieval tower is all that remains of the castle where Joan of Arc was held before being burned at the stake.

An art world insider finds himself battling for his artistic home.

The 16th-century church was kept in its ruined state as a reminder of the casualties of World War I.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

The remains of 40,000 humans, meticulously stacked in a tiny churchyard shed.

Hundreds of prehistoric stones, arranged in perfect lines in a French field.

The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.

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

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

An abandoned beach resort in Normandy reclaimed by artists.

This French castle is said to have once held the Holy Grail but is now a gorgeous mountaintop ruin.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."