This fascinating museum in an old water tower holds the world's largest collection of Vodou artifacts from western and central Africa.

Half a century after it was abandoned, this ghost town is coming back to life.

On this romantic tidal island reachable only at low tide the tomb of a famous French writer overlooks the sea.

Small French town or alien garage?

An image of the legendary saint stands in the shadow of a cathedral she liberated.

Now a memorial, this factory was once used as a concentration camp for artists by the Vichy government.

A towering baroque basilica jutting out of the French countryside.

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

The room where Vincent van Gogh died.

Trek up this glacier before it disappears.

A tiny, forgotten park of surrealist sculptures in Angouleme.

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

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.

One of the great treasures of Neolithic art lies within this carefully constructed pile of rocks.

A huge Megalithic chamber tomb located behind a cafe.

This 1,400-year-old abbey was once a powerhouse for music and intellectualism known across Normandy.

Bordered by forest on three sides and the ocean on the other, the Great Dune of Pilat is the highest sand dune in Europe.

Tens of thousands of ancient rock carvings hidden in the heart of a French national park.

The largest crypt ever constructed in France was built in the 11th century on an ancient Druid sacred site.

Walk through living pictures and music in the Cathedral of Images.

Natural mummies hidden in the crypt of a medieval French church.

Jean Tinguely's bizarre monster sculpture is hidden deep in a forest.

French commune at the heart of conspiracies.