A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

Folklore and history carved into Brittany's coast.

Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.

A colorful piece of contemporary art cheerfully clashes with Lyon's historical architecture.

This ancient theater was once the home of fierce gladiatorial battles.

These crumbling Nazi artillery bunkers are now fair game for massive graffiti projects.

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

A daring D-Day assault by U.S. Army Rangers is commemorated atop the high cliffs of this strategic point.

The world's most famous cheese caves.

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

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

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

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

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

The world's tallest bridge is also possibly the most elegant.

Museum in a swimming pool where the water still flows.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

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

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

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

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.