A journey through the history of medicine throughout the centuries.

A gruesome combat between a hunter and a furious momma bear.

This mysterious sculpture was thought to symbolize a world ravaged by misery.

An art-filled botanical garden and former dyeworks hiding in plain sight.

Explore an eerie, abandoned medieval citadel.

Each of these hand-painted wooden boxes, which date to between the 16th and 19th centuries, contains a genuine human skull.

Supposed home of the camel ridden by Napoleon during his Egyptian campaign.

A charming little museum founded by the designer of the Statue of Liberty.

The world's largest boar is a huge steel titan found at a French rest stop.

The haunting cadaver tomb of a famous French poet, playwright, and filmmaker.

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.