Before this bridge was built people had to wait for the ferryman, an annoyance that, the story has it, gave the town its name.

Live-in sculpture begun by one family in 1979.

The beautiful bas-relief lines a sliver of a 19th-century walking path between two charming French villages.

France's highest manned weather station is the only one still inhabited by meteorologists.

Half a century after it was abandoned, this ghost town is coming back to life.

French commune at the heart of conspiracies.

A chapel on a volcanic core, marking the end of a successful journey.

Small French town or alien garage?