This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

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

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

This simple apartment may have inspired some of the most important theories in the history of science.