Nicknamed the "Museum of Horrors," this French anatomical collection has been fascinating visitors for over a century.

This crumbling, graffiti-covered mansion sits tantalizingly within reach of the proletariat who frequent a public park.

Hundreds of dwarf beeches create an unusual, haunting forest in the north of France.

The post-apocalyptic remnants of a bucolic town ruined by a plane crash.

A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.

A mosaic-tiled house built by graveyard sweeper Raymond Isidore.

A medieval military street hidden beneath a charming French fishing village.

The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.

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

This stunning natural double arch, the largest in the Alps, went undiscovered until 2005.

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

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.

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

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

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

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

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

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

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