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

This "social palace" housing complex created a relatively stable and self-contained worker's society... for a time.

Whether hero or rogue, his silver bullet is said to have taken down the murderous "Beast of Gevaudan."

700 iron sculptures crammed into a Mediterranean park.

A quarry cum sculpture park where the works of art are chiseled into the very walls.

This prehistoric figurine is the oldest known realistic depiction of a human face.

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

An unusual sand beach in the middle of a forest.

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

This hidden workshop is filled with molds of France's most iconic sculptures.

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

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.

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

A beautiful lighthouse with as many steps as days in the year, as many windows as weeks, and as many levels as months.

Europe's largest community of crocodiles and alligators.

This army of concretions is an unexplained geological phenomenon unlike anything else in the world.

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

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

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

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

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

The bizarre home and sculpture garden of an eccentric artist.

Sky ships, planes, and portraits left as unique tokens of hope and thankfulness.