The sunken structure looks like the victim of a catastrophic flood.

This submersible road connecting a French island to the mainland is lined with safety towers for when the tide strands travelers.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

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

A unique underground structure dating back to the 1st century BC.

One of the world's most complex timepieces.

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

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

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

A centuries-old complex of hand-dug stone chambers has sheltered locals in times of trouble.

Bits of architecture from a town destroyed in World War I now decorate this hotel garden.

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

If they push on just the right spot, even the weakest person can move this titanic boulder.

The Church of the Annunciation was carved into the face of a cliff, just like the rest of the town of Haute-Isle.

An art world insider finds himself battling for his artistic home.

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

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

A medieval church with largest and oldest collection of Renaissance frescoes in France.

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

Hundreds of prehistoric stones, arranged in perfect lines in a French field.

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

An abandoned beach resort in Normandy reclaimed by artists.

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.