The historic Masonic Lodge in which the first-ever female Mason was initiated.

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

France's high-tech, future-themed amusement park.

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

This narrow path was cut right into a French mountainside to feed the country's early naval expansion.

The largest crypt ever constructed in France was built in the 11th century on an ancient Druid sacred site.

This otherworldly French waterfall looks like its waters have turned to stone.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

A colossal sculptural lion built by the same man who designed the Statue of Liberty.

An Orthodox church built by the Royal Family for the Russian community exiled to the French Riviera.

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

A unique underground structure dating back to the 1st century BC.

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

Statue of a decomposing prince that once held his heart in its hand.

If they push on just the right spot, even the weakest person can move this titanic boulder.

The birthplace of the ferocious William the Conqueror, this castle is awash in medieval history.

An art world insider finds himself battling for his artistic home.

Miles of man-made caves and tunnels are currently used for cultivating mushrooms.

Hundreds of dwarf beeches create an unusual, haunting forest in the north of France.

These crumbling Nazi artillery bunkers are now fair game for massive graffiti projects.

The Church of the Annunciation was carved into the face of a cliff, just like the rest of the town of Haute-Isle.

A quaint medieval millhouse hovers surprisingly above the waters of the Seine.