Bunker Tombé

The Bunker in Sainte Marguerite sur Mer is a massive WWII German blockhaus that originally sat atop the coastal cliffs before decades of erosion caused it to plunge onto the beach below, landing almost perfectly vertically in the sand.

Today, it stands as a surreal, monolithic attraction that gained modern fame after street artist JR and filmmaker Agnès Varda featured it in their 2016 documentary “Faces Places,” temporarily covering it in a giant mural that the sea washed away within a single day.

Because it sits on an isolated stretch of pebble shoreline beneath sheer chalk walls, visitors hiking down to this striking concrete ruin must carefully check local tide tables in advance, as the high tide completely covers the beach and leaves no escape route up the cliffs.