This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

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

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

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

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.

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

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

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

The largest underground church in Europe.

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

A cave dwelling that was started by the Celts, expanded by monks, and finished by knights.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

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

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.