The writer took refuge in this home in Southern France for the last 17 years of his life.

Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.

Since 1920, one small company has defined the distinctive chairs of Paris' sidewalk bistros.

At this unique farm, you can interact with adorable donkeys and view an ancient dolmen.

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

Take black faced bears with giant clubs, white faced barbers wielding axes, hunters armed with shotguns, and mix in a lot of drinking.

This anatomical sculpture raises awareness about violence against women and promotes gender equality.

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

Napoleon's childhood home is now open for people to explore the beginnings of France's short general.

A Christian retreat founded to welcome refugees fleeing from the Nazis during World War II.

For a brief time in 1960s France, families could climb into a tiny submarine and be pulled along an underwater journey.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

This small red school was where Germany signed their surrender during WWII.

For those late-night mollusk cravings.

Exquisite examples prehistoric bas-relief carvings.

Home to the "Rat King" of Nantes and other wonders of the natural world.

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

The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.

An unsettling shrine dedicated to the ravenous beast that prowled 18th-century France.

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

Fighting the British and making game shows for over 150 years.

An underground city of ancient quarry tunnels hid thousands of Allied soldiers in WWI.

This 14th century wine cellar is home to the oldest barrel-stored wine in the world.

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