A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

The opulent home that inspired Tintin's Marlinspike Hall and the adventures within.

An Orthodox church built by the Royal Family for the Russian community exiled to the French Riviera.

Bits of architecture from a town destroyed in World War I now decorate this hotel garden.

The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.

Hundreds of prehistoric stones, arranged in perfect lines in a French field.

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

The world's tallest bridge is also possibly the most elegant.

A mud statue stands in the dark tunnels, seeming to hold up the weight of the city above.

This medieval tower is all that remains of the castle where Joan of Arc was held before being burned at the stake.

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

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

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

This ancient Roman bridge and aqueduct still stands as a wonder of classical construction.

Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.

The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.

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

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.