A self-built mosaic house and sculpture park.

Journey through the ruins of this ancient Roman temple dedicated to the god of war.

On this romantic tidal island reachable only at low tide the tomb of a famous French writer overlooks the sea.

Folklore and history carved into Brittany's coast.

Old vessels have been transformed into artistic canvases in this unusual cemetery.

Europe's largest community of crocodiles and alligators.

Medieval Danse Macabre Fresco in Northern Brittany.

Rows of multicolored bathing huts paint the sand dunes with pops of color.

A beautiful lighthouse with as many steps as days in the year, as many windows as weeks, and as many levels as months.

An effigy of a trapped paratrooper dangles from a Normandy church to commemorate one remarkable D-Day event.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

A daring D-Day assault by U.S. Army Rangers is commemorated atop the high cliffs of this strategic point.

Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.

This symbol of the French Revolution still stands where it was first planted during the 18th-century.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

Personal garden filled with mosaics made of recycled garbage.

An art-filled botanical garden and former dyeworks hiding in plain sight.

One of the oldest and largest wooden churches in France was very evidently constructed by shipbuilders.

Two small chapels housed inside an ancient tree.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

This medieval tower is all that remains of the castle where Joan of Arc was held before being burned at the stake.

A French museum of wrought iron.

His "Lionheart" is entombed separately from the rest of his body.

A former milk-delivery driver and his wife turn their home into a glimmering mosaic.