Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, France
Grotto of Saint Genevieve
18th century underground pilgrimage site, dedicated to a Saint that did something...
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Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, France
18th century underground pilgrimage site, dedicated to a Saint that did something...
Carnoët, France
A remote hilltop covered in giant monoliths haunts the Brittany countryside.
Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Experience architect Le Corbusier's modernist design for living in the home he designed for himself.
Savonnières, France
Limestone grottoes turns everyday objects into stone.
Bourcefranc-le-Chapus, France
A castle-like sea fort from the 17th century is now a museum to oyster farming.
Larmor-Baden, France
One of the great treasures of Neolithic art lies within this carefully constructed pile of rocks.
Font-Romeu-Odeillo-Via, France
The world's largest solar furnace uses 10,000 mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays to generate power.
Louviers, France
A former milk-delivery driver and his wife turn their home into a glimmering mosaic.
Taizé, France
A Christian retreat founded to welcome refugees fleeing from the Nazis during World War II.
Marseille, France
Longest canal tunnel in the world, abandoned in the 1960s.
Seringes-et-Nesles, France
This secret cemetery where no flag is allowed to fly holds the bodies of American soldiers convicted of heinous crimes during WWII.
Saumur, France
A huge Megalithic chamber tomb located behind a cafe.
Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, France
Guests can stay at a hotel in the former French abbey where lie the tombs of King Henry II and King Richard the Lionheart.
La Teste-de-Buch, France
Bordered by forest on three sides and the ocean on the other, the Great Dune of Pilat is the highest sand dune in Europe.
Chasseneuil-du-Poitou, France
France's high-tech, future-themed amusement park.
Nice, France
An Orthodox church built by the Royal Family for the Russian community exiled to the French Riviera.
Pont-Saint-Esprit, France
A small town hallucinates en masse - Bad bread, or CIA science project?
Auvers Village, France
Memorializing the bravery of one young woman facing the monster of her age.
Vaïssac, France
This miniature Paris, built out of trash, is one man's two decade labor of love.
Dives-sur-Mer, France
Personal garden filled with mosaics made of recycled garbage.
Paris, France
Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.
Montesquieu-Avantès, France
15,000 year old bison sculptures.
Montpellier, France
This French anatomy museum greets guests with a skinless man, mid-shovel.
Tréguennec, France
The haunting concrete remains of a Nazi pebble crusher can still be found in this small French commune.