Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

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

This natural French spring has been turned into a magical grotto by Roman and medieval constructions.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

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

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

A 14th century bridge built as a fortress, where the devil lurks on one of its towers.

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

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

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

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

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

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.