Trek up this glacier before it disappears.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.

The people's champion of the French Revolution was so overcome by grief at his wife's death that he exhumed her in the dead of night to make one final replica of her face.

Vaucanson's most famous automaton, brought back to life.

One of the most powerful religious centers in the Middle Ages, dubbed the founder of Western monasticism.

The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

Jean Tinguely's bizarre monster sculpture is hidden deep in a forest.

France's Lilliputian park displays over 100 of the country's monuments for visitor perusal.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

The Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques is one of the oldest pet cemeteries in the world.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

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

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

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

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 bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.