Museums in France

The birthplace of the builder of the Statue of Liberty is now a museum dedicated to his work.

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

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.

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

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

The mental institution where Van Gogh created some of his most famous work now allows guests to walk in the artist's footsteps.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

An unsettling shrine dedicated to the ravenous beast that prowled 18th-century France.

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

Nicknamed the "Museum of Horrors," this French anatomical collection has been fascinating visitors for over a century.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.