A bike train runs along a disused railway line through the tranquil French countryside.

An art world insider finds himself battling for his artistic home.

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.

The post-apocalyptic remnants of a bucolic town ruined by a plane crash.

Since ancient times these picturesque springs have been providing bathers with healing waters.

This ancient Roman bridge and aqueduct still stands as a wonder of classical construction.

This professional clown's home is an outsider art wonderland.

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

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

The largest underground church in Europe.

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

A 14th century bridge built as a fortress, where the devil lurks on one of its towers.

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

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

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.