On a site with a long military history, a 1980s shelter.

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

Explore this medieval cathedral by trying to spot all the malevolent monsters hiding in its beautifully colored windows.

An image of the legendary saint stands in the shadow of a cathedral she liberated.

A sandstone block marks the alleged spot where the legendary writer was conceived.

A medieval house adorned with enigmatic carvings, including one of a man displaying his masculine attributes.

The vibrant buildings in the “capital of the comic strip” celebrate the art form that made it famous.

This disused boat elevator was saved from the scrap heap so that visitors could tour its rusting skeleton.

The shape of this old salt factory complex was inspired by the course of the Sun.

Live-in sculpture begun by one family in 1979.

A sublime medieval path adorns the marble floor of one of the most beautiful Gothic cathedrals in France.

This remarkable checkered church on a Corsican hilltop is fabled to have been built by angels.

These ruins reveal the remarkably intact layout of a Roman marketplace.

The remains of this ornate chapel now act as a portal to a cramped French cemetery.

A garden of massive sculptures sits in Jean Lindard's backyard.

The birthplace of the builder of the Statue of Liberty is now a museum dedicated to his work.

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

The site of the first medieval crusade that pitted Christians against Christians.

The world's largest boar is a huge steel titan found at a French rest stop.

One man's fifteen-year diversion lead to a garden of intriguing sculptures.

France's highest manned weather station is the only one still inhabited by meteorologists.

This traditional festival celebrates a family of wooden giants that have survived Nazis, wars, and religion.

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

One of the last realized projects of an influential, self-taught, French Modernist architect Jacques Couëlle.