Places BryanKnight Wants to Go

This little train station is forever immortalized in film history.

A public park off the beaten path with a beautiful waterfall and 13th century Cistercian abbey.

This workshop and small museum is dedicated to tiny, delicate figurines that began as a subversive craft after the French Revolution.

Artist Danielle Jacqui decorates nearly every inch of her home inside and out with her work.

A miniature diorama that recounts the brilliant stories of author and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol.

Sleep in a climate-controlled plastic bubble for the night.

Sky ships, planes, and portraits left as unique tokens of hope and thankfulness.

This garden houses the remains of the ancient Greek port of Marseille.

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

This folk museum is devoted to small figurines of provincial village life.

France's third-largest necropolis offers a peaceful respite from a busy port city.

What if all public housing projects had been designed by "the Pygmalion of modern architecture," not only their prototype?

A unique military outpost carved into a rocky outcrop in the English Channel.

Folklore and history carved into Brittany's coast.

This 12th century, partially destroyed, abbey has had several owners and was seized during the French Revolution.

Rows of multicolored bathing huts paint the sand dunes with pops of color.

An abandoned beach resort in Normandy reclaimed by artists.

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

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

An effigy of a trapped paratrooper dangles from a Normandy church to commemorate one remarkable D-Day event.

Bloodstains can still be seen in this medieval church where two medics saved lives on D-Day.

The Lone Star plaque hangs in a bombed-out bunker in Normandy to honor a Texan colonel's heroic actions on D-Day.

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

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