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

Beneath the city of Lourdes, France is a massive, concrete church.

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

Natural mummies hidden in the crypt of a medieval French church.

The fantastic architectural models of a French traveler.

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

When the imprisoned pope's remains were finally returned to the Vatican, his heart stayed behind in France.

The first modern cemetery of Lyon is complete with more than 200 chapels and monuments.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

This garden houses the remains of the ancient Greek port of Marseille.

This "social palace" housing complex created a relatively stable and self-contained worker's society... for a time.

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

An enchanting work of outsider art, full of whimsical sculptures and carvings.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

This strangely vacant Western amusement seems to be an empty tribute to residents of Lucerne Valley.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

An art museum inside an active factory.

Now containing the bones of the actual conquistador, instead of someone else.

The remains of what was the most important religious complex in coastal Peru for over a millennium.

Extraordinary rock formations in open Peruvian fields.

Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.