If they push on just the right spot, even the weakest person can move this titanic boulder.

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

The post-apocalyptic remnants of a bucolic town ruined by a plane crash.

An abandoned beach resort in Normandy reclaimed by artists.

An art world insider finds himself battling for his artistic home.

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

The remains of 40,000 humans, meticulously stacked in a tiny churchyard shed.

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

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

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

A bike train runs along a disused railway line through the tranquil French countryside.

There has been an astronomical clock on this spot since the 14th century.

The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.

A chapel on a volcanic core, marking the end of a successful journey.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

A medieval military street hidden beneath a charming French fishing village.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

A self-built mosaic house and sculpture park.

Museum in a swimming pool where the water still flows.