This traditional festival celebrates a family of wooden giants that have survived Nazis, wars, and religion.

This French chateau is home to the world’s largest private collection of fighter jets.

These rustic holiday homes are made from discarded fishing boat hulls.

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

The birthplace of the builder of the Statue of Liberty is now a museum dedicated to his work.

This prehistoric figurine is the oldest known realistic depiction of a human face.

The world's largest boar is a huge steel titan found at a French rest stop.

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.

Antique cinematography artifacts fill this museum dedicated to the inventors of the moving picture.

France's highest manned weather station is the only one still inhabited by meteorologists.

This fascinating museum in an old water tower holds the world's largest collection of Vodou artifacts from western and central Africa.

A resort destroyed by a mysterious bombing offers visitors only its remains and the riddle behind it's demise.

This striking fort on the Maginot Line looks just as it did after being destroyed in the Fall of France.

Immortalized by artists, this church incorporates a medieval lighthouse into its shoreside structure.

Balconies that have a most unusual accent.

A gothic church dedicated to the love of wine.

This former limestone quarry is now a subterranean wonderland of grand stonework.

Peeing dogs guard the Roman hunting goddess atop a fountain at France’s Château de Fontainebleau.

This historic stone gate tower is now just a lonely relic in the middle of a swamp.

A unique museum tells the story of the day-to-day life of World War I soldiers.

César Baldaccini's iconic sculpture of a 40-foot thumb stands tall in La Défense.

Buddha and Jesus tower over this French mountainside headquarters of the Aumism religious cult.

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