This tiny traditional smokehouse is the only one left in this historic fishing port.

These planks were originally installed to hold the dead.

These 20-foot jaw bones honor a time when the leviathan bones were a sign that whalers survived the hunt.

The recreated ruins of a house designed to memorialize a World War I shelling on the town.

Was the twisted roof on this church's belltower an intentional design or a happy accident?

The blowhole bursts spectacularly right next to the buildings in a medieval seaside town.

Every year, the town of Menton, France, turns lemons and oranges into giant sculptures depicting windmills, dragons, and more.

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

Dolls of all shapes and sizes display the eras of femininity in this spooky and beautiful collection.

A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

The oldest continuously operating mint in the world that has been making coins since the 9th-century.

The home where the famous astrologer wrote some of his most telling prophecies.

This plaza is home to a number of works, including Montpellier‘s own Arc de Triomphe.

The formerly unmarked grave of the noted Black American painter, who was a friend to James Baldwin.

Explore the 500-year history of silk-making in Lyon at this museum, workshop, and boutique.

This former cannon foundry and castle for the Counts of Flanders is now a public garden.

A glamorous hotel that once accommodated French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors.

A massively oversized measuring tape sculpture sits inside a hidden yard.

A fortress on this island housed the mysterious prisoner known as the "Man in the Iron Mask" for more than a decade.