Places cait7911 Wants to Go

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

Avant garde house of Pierre Cardin on the Cote d’Azur.

Beautiful carved tunnels.

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

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

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

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

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

Two small chapels housed inside an ancient tree.

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

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

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

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

Every year, the town of Menton, France, turns lemons and oranges into giant sculptures depicting windmills, dragons, and more.

Every summer, an open-air swimming pool appears at the base of a Finnish city's beloved winter attraction.

The grandest stage for the world's foremost masters of invisible instruments.

Roughly 17 million letters to Santa have found their way to this Arctic Circle post office.