This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

A miniature Corsican village built out of pebbles.

An often-shuddersome journey into a low-tech, robotic themepark.

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

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

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

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

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

700 iron sculptures crammed into a Mediterranean park.

Abandoned outpost once home to a murderous tyrant.

The ruins stand as a somber reminder of France’s worst civil catastrophe of the 20th century.

This Bordeaux parking garage has 712 indoor spaces, and one outdoor.

This 1,400-year-old abbey was once a powerhouse for music and intellectualism known across Normandy.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

The construction of a tram line unveiled hidden remnants of the old medieval city.

This medieval tower is all that remains of the castle where Joan of Arc was held before being burned at the stake.

The personal library of the founder of modern neurology is open to visitors.

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

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

On this romantic tidal island reachable only at low tide the tomb of a famous French writer overlooks the sea.