Why walk on this historical site when you can zoom down instead?

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

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

This hidden garden boasts amazing views of Lyon.

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

Peeing dogs guard the Roman hunting goddess atop a fountain at France’s Château de Fontainebleau.

The experimental test tracks of a retro-futuristic monorail still stand in the French countryside.

This triumphal arch celebrating the Sun King's conquest of Lille is a masterpiece of military architecture.

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

Guests can stay at a hotel in the former French abbey where lie the tombs of King Henry II and King Richard the Lionheart.

Longest canal tunnel in the world, abandoned in the 1960s.

Bordered by forest on three sides and the ocean on the other, the Great Dune of Pilat is the highest sand dune in Europe.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

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

A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.

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

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.

This ancient Roman bridge and aqueduct still stands as a wonder of classical construction.

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

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.

The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

A Gothic cathedral created from volcanic rocks.