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The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

A medieval military street hidden beneath a charming French fishing village.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

A Gothic cathedral created from volcanic rocks.

Ivy-covered Medieval tunnels cut through this charming town in France's Loire Valley.

This recessed garden protects thousands of mountain plants by creating its own microclimates.

The largest underground church in Europe.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

This natural French spring has been turned into a magical grotto by Roman and medieval constructions.

The mental institution where Van Gogh created some of his most famous work now allows guests to walk in the artist's footsteps.

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

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

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

A 14th century bridge built as a fortress, where the devil lurks on one of its towers.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

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

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.