Places Atikin Wants to Go

This prehistoric figurine is the oldest known realistic depiction of a human face.

This stone quarry was used to make axes and other tools more than 6,000 years ago.

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

Sculpture of a legendary French dragon.

The site of the first medieval crusade that pitted Christians against Christians.

These colorful French islands spent a stint bootlegging booze during American Prohibition.

A neighborhood church's unusual abstract stained glass was the final project of avant-garde artist Jean Cocteau.

A 2017 crowdfunding campaign saved this historic castle from being destroyed.

This army of concretions is an unexplained geological phenomenon unlike anything else in the world.

The world's most famous cheese caves.

A unique underground structure dating back to the 1st century BC.

Statue of a decomposing prince that once held his heart in its hand.

Miles of man-made caves and tunnels are currently used for cultivating mushrooms.

Hundreds of prehistoric stones, arranged in perfect lines in a French field.

An ancient monastery, a locked room, and a mysterious book heist.

The 16th-century church was kept in its ruined state as a reminder of the casualties of World War I.

A medieval church with largest and oldest collection of Renaissance frescoes in France.

Museum in a swimming pool where the water still flows.

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

The largest underground church in Europe.

A French valley with forests so lush it was nicknamed "the Small Amazonia of the Pyrenees."