Modern art meets modern convenience in possibly the world's most architecturally important public bathroom.

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

A granite rock formation littered with various species of moss, lichen, and fern.

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

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

Wall after wall of this French seaside neighborhood is intricately decorated with seashells and corals.

This Corsican Neolithic site is full of pre-Roman megalithic structures that may or may not be penises.

This recessed garden protects thousands of mountain plants by creating its own microclimates.

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

An often-shuddersome journey into a low-tech, robotic themepark.

For a brief time in 1960s France, families could climb into a tiny submarine and be pulled along an underwater journey.

One of the great treasures of Neolithic art lies within this carefully constructed pile of rocks.

The haunting concrete remains of a Nazi pebble crusher can still be found in this small French commune.

A small town hallucinates en masse - Bad bread, or CIA science project?

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

A huge Megalithic chamber tomb located behind a cafe.

The beautiful bas-relief lines a sliver of a 19th-century walking path between two charming French villages.

Guests can stay at a hotel in the former French abbey where lie the tombs of King Henry II and King Richard the Lionheart.

Artist and musician Will Menter creates musical sculptures.

Home to the "Rat King" of Nantes and other wonders of the natural world.

Personal garden filled with mosaics made of recycled garbage.

Bordered by forest on three sides and the ocean on the other, the Great Dune of Pilat is the highest sand dune in Europe.