135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

Two small chapels housed inside an ancient tree.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

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

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

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

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

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

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

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.