This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.

These ominous lava formations were said to be an entrance to the netherworld so of course they inspired a famous metal band.

Spend your honeymoon where the Devil had his wedding.

The gutted remains of this Estonian mansion are a monument to a tragic love.

Crumbling ruins of the thermal baths that once attracted royals and aristocrats from throughout Europe.

This crumbling, graffiti-covered mansion sits tantalizingly within reach of the proletariat who frequent a public park.

An abandoned beach resort in Normandy reclaimed by artists.

The world's largest boar is a huge steel titan found at a French rest stop.

A resort destroyed by a mysterious bombing offers visitors only its remains and the riddle behind it's demise.

A French library that makes sure its love of books is writ large... giant in fact.

A quaint medieval millhouse hovers surprisingly above the waters of the Seine.

A centuries-old complex of hand-dug stone chambers has sheltered locals in times of trouble.

The sunken structure looks like the victim of a catastrophic flood.

The deserted pirate-themed restaurant still entices explorers.

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

A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.

Ivy-covered Medieval tunnels cut through this charming town in France's Loire Valley.

This is what trains will look like after the zombie apocalypse.

A mosaic-tiled house built by graveyard sweeper Raymond Isidore.

A medieval military street hidden beneath a charming French fishing village.

These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

The largest underground church in Europe.