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

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

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

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