Saint-Evroult-Notre-Dame-du-Bois, France
Ruins of Abbey of Saint-Evroul
This 1,400-year-old abbey was once a powerhouse for music and intellectualism known across Normandy.
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Saint-Evroult-Notre-Dame-du-Bois, France
This 1,400-year-old abbey was once a powerhouse for music and intellectualism known across Normandy.
Montesquieu-Avantès, France
15,000 year old bison sculptures.
Saugues, France
An unsettling shrine dedicated to the ravenous beast that prowled 18th-century France.
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This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.
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For over 300 years this little carving has been the city’s good luck charm.
Arras, France
An underground city of ancient quarry tunnels hid thousands of Allied soldiers in WWI.
Saint-Léger-de-Peyre, France
A sanctuary for wolves in a community which once trembled in fear of the murderous "Beast of Gévaudan."
Saint-Bonnet-le-Château, France
Natural mummies hidden in the crypt of a medieval French church.
Strasbourg, France
This 14th century wine cellar is home to the oldest barrel-stored wine in the world.
Treigny, France
Despite centuries of architectural innovation, this French castle is being built like it's the 13th century.
Alliat, France
Trek into the depths of the cave where 17,000-year-old paintings exist alongside 400-year-old graffiti.
Marville, France
The remains of 40,000 humans, meticulously stacked in a tiny churchyard shed.
Saint-Rivoal, France
An isolated 17th-century chapel on a remarkable site once dedicated to Celtic sun worship.
Souzay-Champigny, France
Ivy-covered Medieval tunnels cut through this charming town in France's Loire Valley.
Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
A medieval military street hidden beneath a charming French fishing village.
Minerve, France
A well-preserved medieval village nested on a rocky outcrop and surrounded by a network of cliffs, natural bridges and canyons.
Lyon, France
For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.
Montignac, France
Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."
Paris, France
In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.
Paris, France
This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.
Paris, France
A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.
Mont Saint-Michel, France
This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.
Marseille, France
This garden houses the remains of the ancient Greek port of Marseille.
Ravenna, Italy
An incredible mosaic-lined monument said to have held the remains of an ancient Roman empress.