An astounding collection of taxidermy, fossils, skeletons, and even a few strange live beasts.

This prehistoric figurine is the oldest known realistic depiction of a human face.

The remains of this castle, known as the Witch’s Eye, watch over the Thur Valley.

France's highest manned weather station is the only one still inhabited by meteorologists.

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

Admire endangered plants in a verdant garden that looks straight out of a Monet painting.

This striking fort on the Maginot Line looks just as it did after being destroyed in the Fall of France.

The site of the first medieval crusade that pitted Christians against Christians.

This church sits upon a peaceful hill and a long, turbulent history.

Napoleon's childhood home is now open for people to explore the beginnings of France's short general.

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

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

This secret cemetery where no flag is allowed to fly holds the bodies of American soldiers convicted of heinous crimes during WWII.

One of the most powerful religious centers in the Middle Ages, dubbed the founder of Western monasticism.

Trek up this glacier before it disappears.

The eclectic observatory castle of a 19th-century astronomer and explorer.

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

This Corsican Neolithic site is full of pre-Roman megalithic structures that may or may not be penises.

This crack in France's seaside cliffs once hid a sinister secret.

Lady Liberty's original designer installed a little clone in this French fountain.

This small red school was where Germany signed their surrender during WWII.

For a brief time in 1960s France, families could climb into a tiny submarine and be pulled along an underwater journey.

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

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