These red marks, seemingly placed at random, are in fact not.

A beautiful lighthouse with as many steps as days in the year, as many windows as weeks, and as many levels as months.

Before the electric telegraph, a chain of stone towers carried messages across France.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

An effigy of a trapped paratrooper dangles from a Normandy church to commemorate one remarkable D-Day event.

A copy of the Statue of Liberty greets visitors to the birthplace of Auguste Bartholdi.

Visitors dating back to the 1600s carved their marks in the stones of the iconic tower.

The room where Vincent van Gogh died.

One of the great treasures of Neolithic art lies within this carefully constructed pile of rocks.

Guests can stay at a hotel in the former French abbey where lie the tombs of King Henry II and King Richard the Lionheart.

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

France's high-tech, future-themed amusement park.

Folklore and history carved into Brittany's coast.

Fighting the British and making game shows for over 150 years.

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

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

For over 300 years this little carving has been the city’s good luck charm.

The world's most famous cheese caves.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

This submersible road connecting a French island to the mainland is lined with safety towers for when the tide strands travelers.

A colossal sculptural lion built by the same man who designed the Statue of Liberty.

If they push on just the right spot, even the weakest person can move this titanic boulder.

There has been an astronomical clock on this spot since the 14th century.

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