The somewhat misnamed 'Garden of Shells' lovingly built from found objects.

This "social palace" housing complex created a relatively stable and self-contained worker's society... for a time.

France's third-largest necropolis offers a peaceful respite from a busy port city.

A charming little museum founded by the designer of the Statue of Liberty.

The largest refracting telescope in Europe is housed on the grounds of a former French castle.

The sculpture is made of more than 100,000 knives collected to raise awareness about violence.

Whether hero or rogue, his silver bullet is said to have taken down the murderous "Beast of Gevaudan."

In France, a medieval-style home pays homage to an intrepid explorer who discovered Québec.

A treasure trove of fine art is hiding inside this small medieval abbey in Gascony.

A place to see how French aristocrats lived in the early 1900s.

This giant metal cross perched atop a mountain can only be reached by foot.

This workshop and small museum is dedicated to tiny, delicate figurines that began as a subversive craft after the French Revolution.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

A curious collection of locks and keys.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

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

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

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

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.