The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

A fortified palace in the shape of a ship on the Thiou river.

Now a memorial, this factory was once used as a concentration camp for artists by the Vichy government.

An image of the legendary saint stands in the shadow of a cathedral she liberated.

Walk through living pictures and music in the Cathedral of Images.

This mountain trail inspired Nietzsche to complete his magnum opus.

A place to see how French aristocrats lived in the early 1900s.

Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.

A daring D-Day assault by U.S. Army Rangers is commemorated atop the high cliffs of this strategic point.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

The opulent home that inspired Tintin's Marlinspike Hall and the adventures within.

Lyon's "Wall of the Silk Weavers" is one of the largest murals in Europe.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

The castle was reconstructed to fit Kaiser Wilhelm II's romanticized vision of the Middle Ages.

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

An Orthodox church built by the Royal Family for the Russian community exiled to the French Riviera.

A quaint medieval millhouse hovers surprisingly above the waters of the Seine.

The post-apocalyptic remnants of a bucolic town ruined by a plane crash.

This ancient theater was once the home of fierce gladiatorial battles.

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

This ancient Roman bridge and aqueduct still stands as a wonder of classical construction.

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

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