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

These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

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

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

A cave dwelling that was started by the Celts, expanded by monks, and finished by knights.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

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

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

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

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