Aubagne, France
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This workshop and small museum is dedicated to tiny, delicate figurines that began as a subversive craft after the French Revolution.
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Aubagne, France
This workshop and small museum is dedicated to tiny, delicate figurines that began as a subversive craft after the French Revolution.
Aubagne, France
A miniature diorama that recounts the brilliant stories of author and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol.
La Besseyre-Saint-Mary, France
Whether hero or rogue, his silver bullet is said to have taken down the murderous "Beast of Gevaudan."
Meslay-le-Grenet, France
A haunting medieval mural of the Danse Macabre graces the walls of this church.
Paris, France
Former home to Polish artist Tamara de Lempicka's dazzling Art Deco duplex studio.
Rennes-le-Château, France
The way that light hits a stained glass window on a specific day is one of many "clues" to a mysterious treasure.
Salon-de-Provence, France
The home where the famous astrologer wrote some of his most telling prophecies.
Plouha, France
Medieval Danse Macabre Fresco in Northern Brittany.
Sainte-Mère-Église, France
An effigy of a trapped paratrooper dangles from a Normandy church to commemorate one remarkable D-Day event.
Vaïssac, France
This miniature Paris, built out of trash, is one man's two decade labor of love.
Villerouge-Termenès, France
The site of the first medieval crusade that pitted Christians against Christians.
Paris, France
Travel back in time at a Moroccan-inspired restaurant that was the height of glamor in the 1970s.
Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, France
Guests can stay at a hotel in the former French abbey where lie the tombs of King Henry II and King Richard the Lionheart.
Paris, France
Fully loaded, Tunisian-style sandwiches are on the menu at this unassuming hole-in-the-wall.
Marville, France
The remains of 40,000 humans, meticulously stacked in a tiny churchyard shed.
Blois, France
Hundreds of secret cabinets built into the walls of legendary poisoner's private work room.
Auvers-sur-Oise, France
One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."
Paris, France
For more than a century, Parisians have come for affordable dishes in a grand converted train station.
Paris, France
An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.
Paris, France
The approximate spot where the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was put to death.
Paris, France
The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.
Albi, France
A medieval church with largest and oldest collection of Renaissance frescoes in France.
Paris, France
One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.
Maisons-Alfort, France
The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.