This Hungarian stilt village is built in a lake that never freezes over due to the power plant that that uses it as a cooling pond.

The world's largest boar is a huge steel titan found at a French rest stop.

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

One of the most powerful religious centers in the Middle Ages, dubbed the founder of Western monasticism.

Now a memorial, this factory was once used as a concentration camp for artists by the Vichy government.

The world's largest solar furnace uses 10,000 mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays to generate power.

A small town hallucinates en masse - Bad bread, or CIA science project?

1920's reinforced concrete church by architect Auguste Perret changes the face of modern design.

For more than a century, Parisians have come for affordable dishes in a grand converted train station.

These thermal springs were once popular with residents of a nearby Roman colony.

For those late-night mollusk cravings.

This French anatomy museum greets guests with a skinless man, mid-shovel.

Marvel at the opulent Art Nouveau interior while dining on dirt-cheap French classics.

Order a boozy baba au rhum at the oldest patisserie in Paris.

Artist Danielle Jacqui decorates nearly every inch of her home inside and out with her work.

Longest canal tunnel in the world, abandoned in the 1960s.

An often-shuddersome journey into a low-tech, robotic themepark.

A sanctuary for wolves in a community which once trembled in fear of the murderous "Beast of Gévaudan."

The world's most famous cheese caves.

To the famous surrealist artist, liberty required two torches held high.

Perfume museum and library.

Lyon's "Wall of the Silk Weavers" is one of the largest murals in Europe.

This hidden garden boasts amazing views of Lyon.

Green labyrinth formed by a karstic maze hidden in a preserved oak forest.