Gaze upon chocolate sculptures depicting everything from chariot races to Gaudí's famous church at this shrine to sweets.

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.

At this monastery, monks make raw-milk cheese and use excess whey to create methane that powers their hot-water system.

This garden houses the remains of the ancient Greek port of Marseille.

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

A French library that makes sure its love of books is writ large... giant in fact.

The 16th-century church was kept in its ruined state as a reminder of the casualties of World War I.

An isolated 17th-century chapel on a remarkable site once dedicated to Celtic sun worship.

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

Hundreds of secret cabinets built into the walls of legendary poisoner's private work room.

An ancient monastery, a locked room, and a mysterious book heist.

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.

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

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

A public park off the beaten path with a beautiful waterfall and 13th century Cistercian abbey.

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

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.

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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.

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

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