One of the most powerful religious centers in the Middle Ages, dubbed the founder of Western monasticism.

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

The castle was reconstructed to fit Kaiser Wilhelm II's romanticized vision of the Middle Ages.

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

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

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

Perhaps the most beautiful of preserved saints, with a little help from Paris.

Miles of man-made caves and tunnels are currently used for cultivating mushrooms.

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

The personal library of the founder of modern neurology is open to visitors.

A medieval church with largest and oldest collection of Renaissance frescoes in France.

Since ancient times these picturesque springs have been providing bathers with healing waters.

A French valley with forests so lush it was nicknamed "the Small Amazonia of the Pyrenees."

The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

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

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

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

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

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.