This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

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

Series of underground houses inhabited continuously for centuries.

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

Thousands of flamingos and other bird species flourish in these Camargue wetlands.

Sculpture of a legendary French dragon.

A unique underground structure dating back to the 1st century BC.

This ancient theater was once the home of fierce gladiatorial battles.

Walk through living pictures and music in the Cathedral of Images.

What if all public housing projects had been designed by "the Pygmalion of modern architecture," not only their prototype?

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

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

This folk museum is devoted to small figurines of provincial village life.

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

An often-shuddersome journey into a low-tech, robotic themepark.

Even France's favorite aquatic son Jacques Cousteau, couldn't get to the bottom of it.

Balconies that have a most unusual accent.

A French library that makes sure its love of books is writ large... giant in fact.

This stone memorial commemorates a group of French patriots slain by French fascists.

The Nobel-Prize-winning author of The Stranger is buried beneath a simple gravestone in a sleepy French village.