This stone quarry was used to make axes and other tools more than 6,000 years ago.

Europe's largest community of crocodiles and alligators.

The Nobel-Prize-winning author of The Stranger is buried beneath a simple gravestone in a sleepy French village.

The ruins of an abandoned cemetery are among the last remnants of the old village of La Boulaye before a wealthy landowner had it relocated.

An astounding collection of taxidermy, fossils, skeletons, and even a few strange live beasts.

Admire endangered plants in a verdant garden that looks straight out of a Monet painting.

Antique cinematography artifacts fill this museum dedicated to the inventors of the moving picture.

Thousands of flamingos and other bird species flourish in these Camargue wetlands.

Artist and musician Will Menter creates musical sculptures.

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

There is a strange little carving of a person seemingly crushed by a pillar behind the remains of St. Thomas Aquinas.

An unsettling shrine dedicated to the ravenous beast that prowled 18th-century France.

A sanctuary for wolves in a community which once trembled in fear of the murderous "Beast of Gévaudan."

Jean Tinguely's bizarre monster sculpture is hidden deep in a forest.

His "Lionheart" is entombed separately from the rest of his body.

This lesser-known Frank Gehry building houses a treasure trove of cinema history.

The historic Masonic Lodge in which the first-ever female Mason was initiated.

Green labyrinth formed by a karstic maze hidden in a preserved oak forest.

Perhaps the most beautiful of preserved saints, with a little help from Paris.

The largest crypt ever constructed in France was built in the 11th century on an ancient Druid sacred site.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

A unique underground structure dating back to the 1st century BC.

Dedicated to the history and culture of smoking, this small museum now includes a vape lounge.

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