Museum in a swimming pool where the water still flows.

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

Ghosts of France's colonial past.

A French valley with forests so lush it was nicknamed "the Small Amazonia of the Pyrenees."

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

A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.

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

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

This stunning French estate was so lavish that it landed its original owner in jail for the rest of his life.

A medieval military street hidden beneath a charming French fishing village.

A mosaic-tiled house built by graveyard sweeper Raymond Isidore.

Avant garde house of Pierre Cardin on the Cote d’Azur.

Two small chapels housed inside an ancient tree.

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

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

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

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

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.

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

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

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

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