Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

A 14th century bridge built as a fortress, where the devil lurks on one of its towers.

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

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

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A mushroom-shaped outcropping that has come to be the symbol for an entire town.

Da Vinci's equestrian statue, 500 years in the making.

Ham is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business.

These delicate sand pyramids look like naturally occurring gothic spires.

A volcanic old faithful, Stromboli has been erupting continuously for the last 2000 years.

Dramatic sea stacks adorn the coast of this small village on the Adriatic coast.