"Drunken ship" sculpture memorializing the French poet in the city where he died.

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

The world's largest solar furnace uses 10,000 mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays to generate power.

This Corsican Neolithic site is full of pre-Roman megalithic structures that may or may not be penises.

One of the great treasures of Neolithic art lies within this carefully constructed pile of rocks.

Tens of thousands of ancient rock carvings hidden in the heart of a French national park.

An Orthodox church built by the Royal Family for the Russian community exiled to the French Riviera.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

France's high-tech, future-themed amusement park.

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

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

One of the largest ochre quarries in the world, hidden in a limestone landscape.

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

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

This ancient Roman bridge and aqueduct still stands as a wonder of classical construction.

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

These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

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

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

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

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

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.