Places BryanKnight Wants to Go

Celebrate the end of the Great French Wine Blight with a festival of kissing.

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

Live-in sculpture begun by one family in 1979.

In France, a medieval-style home pays homage to an intrepid explorer who discovered Québec.

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

Abandoned outpost once home to a murderous tyrant.

This traditional festival celebrates a family of wooden giants that have survived Nazis, wars, and religion.

A garden of massive sculptures sits in Jean Lindard's backyard.

This mosque was based on Sub-Saharan Islamic architecture and created for the Senegalese Tirailleurs.

The shape of this old salt factory complex was inspired by the course of the Sun.

A fortress on this island housed the mysterious prisoner known as the "Man in the Iron Mask" for more than a decade.

A private garden of sculptural eccentricities.

Lyon's miniature version of the Eiffel Tower was built as a statement in support of French secularism.

A monument to the thousands of Canadian soldiers who died capturing the French ridge during World War I.

A 13th century fortified house built to defend the Duchy of Burgundy.

The precise origins of this pink sandstone temple are unknown.

Take black faced bears with giant clubs, white faced barbers wielding axes, hunters armed with shotguns, and mix in a lot of drinking.

This unusual piece of Renaissance art depicting the bodily horror of crucifixion and skin disease may have been inspired by fungus-induced hallucinations.

Grottoes, sculptures, and recycled ceramics permeate what was once just a small farm in France.

700 iron sculptures crammed into a Mediterranean park.

Journey through the ruins of this ancient Roman temple dedicated to the god of war.

A functioning Roman-era aqueduct and bridge in rural southwest France.

The birthplace of the builder of the Statue of Liberty is now a museum dedicated to his work.

A medieval church built into an ancient cave.