These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.

A well-preserved medieval village nested on a rocky outcrop and surrounded by a network of cliffs, natural bridges and canyons.

The Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques is one of the oldest pet cemeteries in the world.

A natural arch carved by a river gave its name to the so-called "Cave of Forgotten Dreams."

Avant garde house of Pierre Cardin on the Cote d’Azur.

Sleep in a climate-controlled plastic bubble for the night.

This stunning natural double arch, the largest in the Alps, went undiscovered until 2005.

Beautiful carved tunnels.

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

The fantastic architectural models of a French traveler.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

This professional clown's home is an outsider art wonderland.

Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

Ghosts of France's colonial past.

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

Two small chapels housed inside an ancient tree.

The mental institution where Van Gogh created some of his most famous work now allows guests to walk in the artist's footsteps.

A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

A Gothic cathedral created from volcanic rocks.

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

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.