The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.

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

This French castle is said to have once held the Holy Grail but is now a gorgeous mountaintop ruin.

This ancient Roman bridge and aqueduct still stands as a wonder of classical construction.

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

This stunning natural double arch, the largest in the Alps, went undiscovered until 2005.

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

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

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.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

A Gothic cathedral created from volcanic rocks.

A 14th century bridge built as a fortress, where the devil lurks on one of its towers.

A cave dwelling that was started by the Celts, expanded by monks, and finished by knights.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

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

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.