This facility has manufactured stunning tapestries for France's royalty ever since the 17th century.

The experimental test tracks of a retro-futuristic monorail still stand in the French countryside.

Peeing dogs guard the Roman hunting goddess atop a fountain at France’s Château de Fontainebleau.

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

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

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

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.

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

A quaint medieval millhouse hovers surprisingly above the waters of the Seine.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

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

Hundreds of secret cabinets built into the walls of legendary poisoner's private work room.

These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

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

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

A Gothic cathedral created from volcanic rocks.