A Belle Epoque bordello turned into a themed love hotel.

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

A unique zoological park home to over 30 species of wild cats, both big and small.

A resort destroyed by a mysterious bombing offers visitors only its remains and the riddle behind it's demise.

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

A crumbling island fortress that seems to be covered in a field of stone crosses but is simply incomplete.

A sanctuary for wolves in a community which once trembled in fear of the murderous "Beast of Gévaudan."

100-windowed castle turned art gallery, built by one dedicated mason.

This ancient theater was once the home of fierce gladiatorial battles.

Bits of architecture from a town destroyed in World War I now decorate this hotel garden.

A medieval church with largest and oldest collection of Renaissance frescoes in France.

A self-built mosaic house and sculpture park.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

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

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.