The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

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

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

This natural French spring has been turned into a magical grotto by Roman and medieval constructions.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

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

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

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.

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

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

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.