An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

Beautiful carved tunnels.

The fantastic architectural models of a French traveler.

A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.

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

This natural French spring has been turned into a magical grotto by Roman and medieval constructions.

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

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

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

A tiled, multi-level garden of survival in Lyon.

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

The first (but not only) upside-down house in Germany.

These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.

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

"Drunken ship" sculpture memorializing the French poet in the city where he died.

Sleep in a climate-controlled plastic bubble for the night.

The castle where the Marquis de Sade lived out his darkest fantasies.

A public park off the beaten path with a beautiful waterfall and 13th century Cistercian abbey.

This otherworldly French waterfall looks like its waters have turned to stone.