The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

Resting on a hill overlooking the coast, these medieval ruins look completely deserted save for their restored chapel.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

This remarkable checkered church on a Corsican hilltop is fabled to have been built by angels.

An image of the legendary saint stands in the shadow of a cathedral she liberated.

Peeing dogs guard the Roman hunting goddess atop a fountain at France’s Château de Fontainebleau.

A resort destroyed by a mysterious bombing offers visitors only its remains and the riddle behind it's demise.

Thousands of flamingos and other bird species flourish in these Camargue wetlands.

Napoleon's childhood home is now open for people to explore the beginnings of France's short general.

The birthplace of the ferocious William the Conqueror, this castle is awash in medieval history.

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

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

The narrowest street in Paris.

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

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

The opulent home that inspired Tintin's Marlinspike Hall and the adventures within.

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

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

Hundreds of prehistoric stones, arranged in perfect lines in a French field.

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

These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.

A Gothic cathedral created from volcanic rocks.

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