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A tiny, forgotten park of surrealist sculptures in Angouleme.

The vibrant buildings in the “capital of the comic strip” celebrate the art form that made it famous.

A sublime medieval path adorns the marble floor of one of the most beautiful Gothic cathedrals in France.

The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

A mud statue stands in the dark tunnels, seeming to hold up the weight of the city above.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

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

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.