The huge golden reliquary of a testicle-smashing saint.

Immortalized by artists, this church incorporates a medieval lighthouse into its shoreside structure.

Grottoes, sculptures, and recycled ceramics permeate what was once just a small farm in France.

This building’s ghostly exterior reflects its former lives as a prison, school, and funeral home.

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

Shattered columns and Egyptian pyramids outside of Paris.

An abandoned nightclub has become a vibrant work of art.

A gothic church dedicated to the love of wine.

Buddha and Jesus tower over this French mountainside headquarters of the Aumism religious cult.

A resort destroyed by a mysterious bombing offers visitors only its remains and the riddle behind it's demise.

This historic stone gate tower is now just a lonely relic in the middle of a swamp.

The eclectic observatory castle of a 19th-century astronomer and explorer.

Napoleon's childhood home is now open for people to explore the beginnings of France's short general.

A tiny, forgotten park of surrealist sculptures in Angouleme.

This 1,400-year-old abbey was once a powerhouse for music and intellectualism known across Normandy.

Thousands of flamingos and other bird species flourish in these Camargue wetlands.

Sculpture of a legendary French dragon.

A French museum of wrought iron.

The ruins of an abandoned cemetery are among the last remnants of the old village of La Boulaye before a wealthy landowner had it relocated.

The somewhat misnamed 'Garden of Shells' lovingly built from found objects.

This medieval tower is all that remains of the castle where Joan of Arc was held before being burned at the stake.

An effigy of a trapped paratrooper dangles from a Normandy church to commemorate one remarkable D-Day event.

This former limestone quarry is now a subterranean wonderland of grand stonework.

Small French town or alien garage?