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

This facility has manufactured stunning tapestries for France's royalty ever since the 17th century.

The storefront of a ramshackle Parisian puppet theater.

Auguste Maïcon, a pioneer in French aviation, was born in this house in 1891.

This medieval chapel is now a shrine to the region's favorite sport.

In France, a medieval-style home pays homage to an intrepid explorer who discovered Québec.

This hidden garden boasts amazing views of Lyon.

The smallest port in France is named after the pirate who created it.

This stone memorial commemorates a group of French patriots slain by French fascists.

Supposed home of the camel ridden by Napoleon during his Egyptian campaign.

Lyon's miniature version of the Eiffel Tower was built as a statement in support of French secularism.

Admire endangered plants in a verdant garden that looks straight out of a Monet painting.

These rustic holiday homes are made from discarded fishing boat hulls.

Before this bridge was built people had to wait for the ferryman, an annoyance that, the story has it, gave the town its name.

This folk museum is devoted to small figurines of provincial village life.

The people's champion of the French Revolution was so overcome by grief at his wife's death that he exhumed her in the dead of night to make one final replica of her face.

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

Celebrate the end of the Great French Wine Blight with a festival of kissing.

More than 140 granite sculptures decorate the lawn of this French sculptor.

On this romantic tidal island reachable only at low tide the tomb of a famous French writer overlooks the sea.

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

When the imprisoned pope's remains were finally returned to the Vatican, his heart stayed behind in France.

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

A 13th century fortified house built to defend the Duchy of Burgundy.