Places coyotecrafty Wants to Go

A well-preserved medieval village nested on a rocky outcrop and surrounded by a network of cliffs, natural bridges and canyons.

These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.

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

This stunning natural double arch, the largest in the Alps, went undiscovered until 2005.

Beautiful carved tunnels.

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

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

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

The fantastic architectural models of a French traveler.

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

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

This professional clown's home is an outsider art wonderland.

An ancient monastery, a locked room, and a mysterious book heist.

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

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

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

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

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

Ghosts of France's colonial past.

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

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

Two small chapels housed inside an ancient tree.

A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.