Ham is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business.

Once home to one of the oldest banks in the world, this building is also where Marco Polo's famous travelogue was written.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

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

These ruins reveal the remarkably intact layout of a Roman marketplace.

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

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

This triumphal arch celebrating the Sun King's conquest of Lille is a masterpiece of military architecture.

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

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

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

A functioning Roman-era aqueduct and bridge in rural southwest France.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

The world's most famous cheese caves.

This tiny cafe is one of the last meeting places of its kind, allowing revolutionaries a place to plot.

These medieval ruins have survived since the 12th century, even providing shelter from the Nazis.

Even France's favorite aquatic son Jacques Cousteau, couldn't get to the bottom of it.

Thousands of flamingos and other bird species flourish in these Camargue wetlands.

The Nobel-Prize-winning author of The Stranger is buried beneath a simple gravestone in a sleepy French village.

This army of concretions is an unexplained geological phenomenon unlike anything else in the world.

A unique underground structure dating back to the 1st century BC.