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

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

A Gothic cathedral created from volcanic rocks.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

The mental institution where Van Gogh created some of his most famous work now allows guests to walk in the artist's footsteps.

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

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

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.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

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

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

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.