An Orthodox church built by the Royal Family for the Russian community exiled to the French Riviera.

Supposed home of the camel ridden by Napoleon during his Egyptian campaign.

Immortalized by artists, this church incorporates a medieval lighthouse into its shoreside structure.

Sculpture of a legendary French dragon.

The Nobel-Prize-winning author of The Stranger is buried beneath a simple gravestone in a sleepy French village.

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

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

Fighting the British and making game shows for over 150 years.

Series of underground houses inhabited continuously for centuries.

This ancient Roman bridge and aqueduct still stands as a wonder of classical construction.

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.

Even France's favorite aquatic son Jacques Cousteau, couldn't get to the bottom of it.

Walk through living pictures and music in the Cathedral of Images.

A unique underground structure dating back to the 1st century BC.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

This French castle is said to have once held the Holy Grail but is now a gorgeous mountaintop ruin.

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

A natural arch carved by a river gave its name to the so-called "Cave of Forgotten Dreams."

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.

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

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

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

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.