Places claresmith Wants to Go

The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.

The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.

A mosaic-tiled house built by graveyard sweeper Raymond Isidore.

The narrowest street in Paris.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

A natural arch carved by a river gave its name to the so-called "Cave of Forgotten Dreams."

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

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

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

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

Besieged by war, this castle ruin has crumbled into a peaceful picnic spot.

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

Small French town or alien garage?

This French castle is said to have once held the Holy Grail but is now a gorgeous mountaintop ruin.

A circle stone within a stone circle.

A neolithic dolmen that was rebuilt after collapsing during the 19th century.

A open air theatre built on a cliff by an eccentric British woman.

A legendary rocking stone, returned to its clifftop perch.

Perhaps the only prehistoric monument with its very own public bus stop.

The excellent acoustics of this natural amphitheater made it a popular preaching spot for the founder of the Methodist Church.

The ruins of an 11th-century Norman castle with a rare, perfectly circular shape.

The largest underground church in Europe.

Green labyrinth formed by a karstic maze hidden in a preserved oak forest.