Shattered columns and Egyptian pyramids outside of Paris.

A unique museum tells the story of the day-to-day life of World War I soldiers.

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

This crack in France's seaside cliffs once hid a sinister secret.

Sky ships, planes, and portraits left as unique tokens of hope and thankfulness.

This historic stone gate tower is now just a lonely relic in the middle of a swamp.

A beautiful lighthouse with as many steps as days in the year, as many windows as weeks, and as many levels as months.

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

These ruins reveal the remarkably intact layout of a Roman marketplace.

These colorful French islands spent a stint bootlegging booze during American Prohibition.

Now a memorial, this factory was once used as a concentration camp for artists by the Vichy government.

Napoleon's childhood home is now open for people to explore the beginnings of France's short general.

Visitors dating back to the 1600s carved their marks in the stones of the iconic tower.

One of the most powerful religious centers in the Middle Ages, dubbed the founder of Western monasticism.

This triumphal arch celebrating the Sun King's conquest of Lille is a masterpiece of military architecture.

Trek up this glacier before it disappears.

A sublime medieval path adorns the marble floor of one of the most beautiful Gothic cathedrals in France.

Limestone grottoes turns everyday objects into stone.

Wall after wall of this French seaside neighborhood is intricately decorated with seashells and corals.

This Corsican Neolithic site is full of pre-Roman megalithic structures that may or may not be penises.

This army of concretions is an unexplained geological phenomenon unlike anything else in the world.

This building’s ghostly exterior reflects its former lives as a prison, school, and funeral home.

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

Beneath the city of Lourdes, France is a massive, concrete church.