Since ancient times these picturesque springs have been providing bathers with healing waters.

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

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

A mosaic-tiled house built by graveyard sweeper Raymond Isidore.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

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

A well-preserved medieval village nested on a rocky outcrop and surrounded by a network of cliffs, natural bridges and canyons.

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

A French valley with forests so lush it was nicknamed "the Small Amazonia of the Pyrenees."

The mental institution where Van Gogh created some of his most famous work now allows guests to walk in the artist's footsteps.

A 14th century bridge built as a fortress, where the devil lurks on one of its towers.

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

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

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

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.