Despite centuries of architectural innovation, this French castle is being built like it's the 13th century.

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

The somewhat misnamed 'Garden of Shells' lovingly built from found objects.

To the famous surrealist artist, liberty required two torches held high.

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

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

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

A bike train runs along a disused railway line through the tranquil French countryside.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

Huge Russian Orthodox cemetery in danger of being converted into open public space.

The room where Vincent van Gogh died.

Perfume museum and library.

1920's reinforced concrete church by architect Auguste Perret changes the face of modern design.

This crumbling, graffiti-covered mansion sits tantalizingly within reach of the proletariat who frequent a public park.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

This hidden workshop is filled with molds of France's most iconic sculptures.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

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

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.