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

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

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.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

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

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

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

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

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

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

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

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

City Council meetings still happen in this historic building, impeccably preserved on the inside.

Quirky movable sculptures have been racing through the town since 1983.