Poseidon? No one seems to know.

Temple complex that once housed the famous statue of Nike.

An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.

The post-apocalyptic remnants of a bucolic town ruined by a plane crash.

Despite centuries of architectural innovation, this French castle is being built like it's the 13th century.

This traditional festival celebrates a family of wooden giants that have survived Nazis, wars, and religion.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

An Orthodox church built by the Royal Family for the Russian community exiled to the French Riviera.

A copy of the Statue of Liberty greets visitors to the birthplace of Auguste Bartholdi.

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

A neighborhood church's unusual abstract stained glass was the final project of avant-garde artist Jean Cocteau.

Guests can stay at a hotel in the former French abbey where lie the tombs of King Henry II and King Richard the Lionheart.

A Parisian boutique devoted to la Sape, the elegant Congolese fashion subculture rooted in European colonization.

This professional clown's home is an outsider art wonderland.

A remote hilltop covered in giant monoliths haunts the Brittany countryside.

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

A quirky bookstore hidden beneath a sea of whitewashed Greek villas.

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

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

Ancient Greek oracle of the dead.

The sunken structure looks like the victim of a catastrophic flood.

These colorful French islands spent a stint bootlegging booze during American Prohibition.

Antique cinematography artifacts fill this museum dedicated to the inventors of the moving picture.

This hidden workshop is filled with molds of France's most iconic sculptures.