These rustic holiday homes are made from discarded fishing boat hulls.

The ruins stand as a somber reminder of France’s worst civil catastrophe of the 20th century.

This French chateau is home to the world’s largest private collection of fighter jets.

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

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

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

This striking fort on the Maginot Line looks just as it did after being destroyed in the Fall of France.

Half a century after it was abandoned, this ghost town is coming back to life.

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

Experience architect Le Corbusier's modernist design for living in the home he designed for himself.

The Nobel-Prize-winning author of The Stranger is buried beneath a simple gravestone in a sleepy French village.

This secret cemetery where no flag is allowed to fly holds the bodies of American soldiers convicted of heinous crimes during WWII.

What if all public housing projects had been designed by "the Pygmalion of modern architecture," not only their prototype?

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

This miniature Paris, built out of trash, is one man's two decade labor of love.

A castle-like sea fort from the 17th century is now a museum to oyster farming.

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

Longest canal tunnel in the world, abandoned in the 1960s.

For those late-night mollusk cravings.

Abandoned blockhouses from Nazi Germany's Atlantic Wall erode into the sea on a French beach.

France's Lilliputian park displays over 100 of the country's monuments for visitor perusal.

Site of one of World War I's most horrific scenes.

Bordered by forest on three sides and the ocean on the other, the Great Dune of Pilat is the highest sand dune in Europe.

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