On this romantic tidal island reachable only at low tide the tomb of a famous French writer overlooks the sea.

Admire endangered plants in a verdant garden that looks straight out of a Monet painting.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

This symbol of the French Revolution still stands where it was first planted during the 18th-century.

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

Shattered columns and Egyptian pyramids outside of Paris.

A former milk-delivery driver and his wife turn their home into a glimmering mosaic.

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

Thanks to a clever legal loophole, this mountainside wine shop sells a hybrid cuvée that's been outlawed for nearly a century.

Got apples?

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

This professional clown's home is an outsider art wonderland.

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

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

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