Places coyotecrafty Wants to Go

An ancient ossuary in Rouen.

This narrow path was cut right into a French mountainside to feed the country's early naval expansion.

The deserted pirate-themed restaurant still entices explorers.

This futuristic observatory at the top of the Pyrénées offers unrivaled views.

Underneath a chalk hill in France lies what Hitler hoped would be the underground launching base for a devastating new weapon.

Figures of unknown origin carved into the surfaces of underground caves.

Despite centuries of architectural innovation, this French castle is being built like it's the 13th century.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

The 16th-century church was kept in its ruined state as a reminder of the casualties of World War I.

A medieval church with largest and oldest collection of Renaissance frescoes in France.

The not-quite-incorruptible St. Bernadette is perhaps the most beautiful of preserved saints—with a little help from Paris.

A unique underground structure dating back to the 1st century BC.

These crumbling Nazi artillery bunkers are now fair game for massive graffiti projects.

A centuries-old complex of hand-dug stone chambers has sheltered locals in times of trouble.

The Church of the Annunciation was carved into the face of a cliff, just like the rest of the town of Haute-Isle.

A colossal sculptural lion built by the same man who designed the Statue of Liberty.

The personal library of the founder of modern neurology is open to visitors.

Bits of architecture from a town destroyed in World War I now decorate this hotel garden.

The remains of 40,000 humans, meticulously stacked in a tiny churchyard shed.

One of the world's most complex timepieces.

Statue of a decomposing prince that once held his heart in its hand.

This crumbling, graffiti-covered mansion sits tantalizingly within reach of the proletariat who frequent a public park.

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.