This bunker in northern France was built by Nazi German forces with the intention of launching up to 50 V2 rockets at London each day.

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

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

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

The post-apocalyptic remnants of a bucolic town ruined by a plane crash.

Ghosts of France's colonial past.

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

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

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

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

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

A glamorous hotel that once accommodated French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors.

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

The Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques is one of the oldest pet cemeteries in the world.

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

Henry VIII's forgotten castle was built by the gunpowder-obsessed king to be defended solely by cannons.

A nuclear bunker built to shelter the politicians and important people of Scotland in case of nuclear attack.

A roadside shrine to a late rock god only remains thanks to the unyielding efforts of his fans.

A red sandstone freestanding monolith rises out of the sea in northern Scotland.

The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.

The true age of this ancient stone circle is unknown, but its stunning vista isn't in question.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.