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.

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

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

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.

A cave dwelling that was started by the Celts, expanded by monks, and finished by knights.

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

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

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

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

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

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

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.