Europe's largest community of crocodiles and alligators.

These ruins reveal the remarkably intact layout of a Roman marketplace.

The remains of this ornate chapel now act as a portal to a cramped French cemetery.

One man's fifteen-year diversion lead to a garden of intriguing sculptures.

This hidden workshop is filled with molds of France's most iconic sculptures.

A sublime medieval path adorns the marble floor of one of the most beautiful Gothic cathedrals in France.

The birthplace of the ferocious William the Conqueror, this castle is awash in medieval history.

A beautiful lighthouse with as many steps as days in the year, as many windows as weeks, and as many levels as months.

"Drunken ship" sculpture memorializing the French poet in the city where he died.

The site of the first medieval crusade that pitted Christians against Christians.

One of the last realized projects of an influential, self-taught, French Modernist architect Jacques Couëlle.

France's highest manned weather station is the only one still inhabited by meteorologists.

These colorful French islands spent a stint bootlegging booze during American Prohibition.

Sky ships, planes, and portraits left as unique tokens of hope and thankfulness.

A gothic church dedicated to the love of wine.

Immortalized by artists, this church incorporates a medieval lighthouse into its shoreside structure.

This tiny cafe is one of the last meeting places of its kind, allowing revolutionaries a place to plot.

This triumphal arch celebrating the Sun King's conquest of Lille is a masterpiece of military architecture.

The castle was reconstructed to fit Kaiser Wilhelm II's romanticized vision of the Middle Ages.

Trek up this glacier before it disappears.

Shattered columns and Egyptian pyramids outside of Paris.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

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

This historic stone gate tower is now just a lonely relic in the middle of a swamp.