The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

This French castle is said to have once held the Holy Grail but is now a gorgeous mountaintop ruin.

Museum in a swimming pool where the water still flows.

The world's tallest bridge is also possibly the most elegant.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

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

The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

The Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques is one of the oldest pet cemeteries in the world.

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.

A medieval military street hidden beneath a charming French fishing village.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

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

A well-preserved medieval village nested on a rocky outcrop and surrounded by a network of cliffs, natural bridges and canyons.

This stunning natural double arch, the largest in the Alps, went undiscovered until 2005.

Beautiful carved tunnels.

A natural arch carved by a river gave its name to the so-called "Cave of Forgotten Dreams."

Avant garde house of Pierre Cardin on the Cote d’Azur.

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

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

This natural French spring has been turned into a magical grotto by Roman and medieval constructions.

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.