Guests can stay at a hotel in the former French abbey where lie the tombs of King Henry II and King Richard the Lionheart.

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

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

In France, a medieval-style home pays homage to an intrepid explorer who discovered Québec.

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

The woman who helped save 15th-century France was born in this humble home.

Jean Tinguely's bizarre monster sculpture is hidden deep in a forest.

A private garden of sculptural eccentricities.

Hundreds of secret cabinets built into the walls of legendary poisoner's private work room.

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

Fur-lined metal pod dangling in the French countryside.

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

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

A former milk-delivery driver and his wife turn their home into a glimmering mosaic.

A small house sits between two huge rocks, with its back to the sea.

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

The personal library of the founder of modern neurology is open to visitors.

700 iron sculptures crammed into a Mediterranean park.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

During the summer months, giant teddy bears take over Paris near Les Gobelins metro station.

From carts to cars, this leftover Roman bridge in France has managed to survive for centuries.

This crumbling, graffiti-covered mansion sits tantalizingly within reach of the proletariat who frequent a public park.

Bits of architecture from a town destroyed in World War I now decorate this hotel garden.

Home to fantastic views and ancient graves.