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

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

This beautifully verdant lagoon is tucked below a massive volcano in a crater atop a black pebble beach.

Partially collapsed lava tube and cave system complete with concert hall, underground pond, and unique albino crabs.

Visit a surreal landscape so otherworldly NASA actually used it to train the Apollo 17 crew.

The chefs at El Diablo use heat generated by an active volcano to cook the food.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

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

This historic stone gate tower is now just a lonely relic in the middle of a swamp.

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

This fascinating abbey is considered the oldest monastery in the region.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

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

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.