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

A chapel on a volcanic core, marking the end of a successful journey.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

A self-built mosaic house and sculpture park.

This French castle is said to have once held the Holy Grail but is now a gorgeous mountaintop ruin.

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

There has been an astronomical clock on this spot since the 14th century.

Museum in a swimming pool where the water still flows.

Avant garde house of Pierre Cardin on the Cote d’Azur.

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

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

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

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

Beautiful carved tunnels.

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

These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

This natural French spring has been turned into a magical grotto by Roman and medieval constructions.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.