Places amarionknh Wants to Go

The smallest port in France is named after the pirate who created it.

Winston Churchill painted this lake during his stay Woolsack Castle in the Landes forest.

Auguste Maïcon, a pioneer in French aviation, was born in this house in 1891.

A precariously balanced goose-shaped boulder with a dark legend.

An unusual sand beach in the middle of a forest.

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

A beautiful lighthouse with as many steps as days in the year, as many windows as weeks, and as many levels as months.

Before this bridge was built people had to wait for the ferryman, an annoyance that, the story has it, gave the town its name.

The people's champion of the French Revolution was so overcome by grief at his wife's death that he exhumed her in the dead of night to make one final replica of her face.

This 1,400-year-old abbey was once a powerhouse for music and intellectualism known across Normandy.

The tomb of a hard traveling saint is constantly covered in shoes as offerings to heal disabled youth.

A once drab public housing estate is transformed into a colorful gallery of trompe l’oeil murals.

When the imprisoned pope's remains were finally returned to the Vatican, his heart stayed behind in France.

A private garden of sculptural eccentricities.

More than 140 granite sculptures decorate the lawn of this French sculptor.

A miniature Corsican village built out of pebbles.

Before the electric telegraph, a chain of stone towers carried messages across France.

Live-in sculpture begun by one family in 1979.

Whether hero or rogue, his silver bullet is said to have taken down the murderous "Beast of Gevaudan."

Peeing dogs guard the Roman hunting goddess atop a fountain at France’s Château de Fontainebleau.

The eclectic observatory castle of a 19th-century astronomer and explorer.

France's highest manned weather station is the only one still inhabited by meteorologists.

This remarkable checkered church on a Corsican hilltop is fabled to have been built by angels.

Abandoned outpost once home to a murderous tyrant.