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

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

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

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

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.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

The Church of the Annunciation was carved into the face of a cliff, just like the rest of the town of Haute-Isle.

At this monastery, monks make raw-milk cheese and use excess whey to create methane that powers their hot-water system.

The former global standard for the exact mass of one kilogram sits under lock and key outside Paris.

This Gothic church houses ornate royal tombs and a magnificent gilded altarpiece.

A series of recreated fortifications mark George Orwell's path through the Spanish Civil War.

Designed in the Romanesque style, this structure was once a fortress monastery.

A medieval church built into an ancient cave.

This anatomical sculpture raises awareness about violence against women and promotes gender equality.

This narrow path was cut right into a French mountainside to feed the country's early naval expansion.

This awesome Spanish castle is so fantastical it was actually used on Game of Thrones.

A whimsical garden of outsider art in the Spanish countryside.

A Franco-era dam flooded (almost) everyone out of this centuries-old Aragonese town.

Sanctuary on a ridge near an ancient shrine to a "Black Madonna" built by the founder of Opus Dei.

This religious complex carved into a cliff is steeped in legends of miraculous stags and the Holy Grail.