An ancient ossuary in Rouen.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

This stunning French estate was so lavish that it landed its original owner in jail for the rest of his life.

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

Shattered columns and Egyptian pyramids outside of Paris.

The man who introduced reinforced concrete to the world demonstrated its genius by using it to build his own house.

César Baldaccini's iconic sculpture of a 40-foot thumb stands tall in La Défense.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

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

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

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

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

The personal library of the founder of modern neurology is open to visitors.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The historic Masonic Lodge in which the first-ever female Mason was initiated.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.