Places ejbrown Wants to Go

The people's champion of the French Revolution was so overcome by grief at his wife's death that he exhumed her in the dead of night to make one final replica of her face.

A medieval house adorned with enigmatic carvings, including one of a man displaying his masculine attributes.

Nearly every wall in this French villa has been "tattooed" by artist Jean Cocteau and other famous painters.

This unusual piece of Renaissance art depicting the bodily horror of crucifixion and skin disease may have been inspired by fungus-induced hallucinations.

Napoleon's childhood home is now open for people to explore the beginnings of France's short general.

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

Guests can stay at a hotel in the former French abbey where lie the tombs of King Henry II and King Richard the Lionheart.

There is a strange little carving of a person seemingly crushed by a pillar behind the remains of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Nicknamed the "Museum of Horrors," this French anatomical collection has been fascinating visitors for over a century.

His "Lionheart" is entombed separately from the rest of his body.

A remote hilltop covered in giant monoliths haunts the Brittany countryside.

A unique museum tells the story of the day-to-day life of World War I soldiers.

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

The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.

There has been an astronomical clock on this spot since the 14th century.

A quaint medieval millhouse hovers surprisingly above the waters of the Seine.

Hundreds of secret cabinets built into the walls of legendary poisoner's private work room.

This stunning French estate was so lavish that it landed its original owner in jail for the rest of his life.

These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.

The castle was reconstructed to fit Kaiser Wilhelm II's romanticized vision of the Middle Ages.

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

This medieval tower is all that remains of the castle where Joan of Arc was held before being burned at the stake.

The largest crypt ever constructed in France was built in the 11th century on an ancient Druid sacred site.