These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.

According to a local legend, this peculiar mountaintop rock formation is actually a demon that was turned into stone.

On the shores of Lake Laffrey, a monument commemorating one of Napoleon Bonaparte's most compelling victories.

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

The second-largest natural arch in the Chartreuse Mountains.

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

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

A public park off the beaten path with a beautiful waterfall and 13th century Cistercian abbey.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

A Gothic cathedral created from volcanic rocks.

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

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

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

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

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

Clusters of abandoned buildings hint at the facility's 144-year history with psychiatric health.

All that remains of this former mill town is a ranger station and some crumbling buildings.

The tiny airport in remote Newfoundland that inspired a hit musical is also a modernist architectural gem.

This huge ship ran aground and has simply been left to sit there ever since.

From this isolated strip of land in Newfoundland, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.