Museum in a swimming pool where the water still flows.

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

This French castle is said to have once held the Holy Grail but is now a gorgeous mountaintop ruin.

Sleep in a climate-controlled plastic bubble for the night.

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

A mosaic-tiled house built by graveyard sweeper Raymond Isidore.

A French valley with forests so lush it was nicknamed "the Small Amazonia of the Pyrenees."

The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

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

Avant garde house of Pierre Cardin on the Cote d’Azur.

The fantastic architectural models of a French traveler.

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

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

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

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

The mental institution where Van Gogh created some of his most famous work now allows guests to walk in the artist's footsteps.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.