Vaucanson's most famous automaton, brought back to life.

Experience architect Le Corbusier's modernist design for living in the home he designed for himself.

This ancient theater was once the home of fierce gladiatorial battles.

A sanctuary for wolves in a community which once trembled in fear of the murderous "Beast of Gévaudan."

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

An unsettling shrine dedicated to the ravenous beast that prowled 18th-century France.

This otherworldly French waterfall looks like its waters have turned to stone.

A former plague hospital turned medical museum.

A huge Megalithic chamber tomb located behind a cafe.

Exquisite examples prehistoric bas-relief carvings.

A quaint medieval millhouse hovers surprisingly above the waters of the Seine.

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

The works of poetry's biggest names grace the walls of the city of Leiden, all carefully painted by hand.