Inaugurated in 1921, this is one of many statues in France dedicated to the people who died during World War I for their country.

This small island, a byproduct of 19th-century canal construction, is now home to a charming Japanese garden.

A beautiful lighthouse with as many steps as days in the year, as many windows as weeks, and as many levels as months.

The Lone Star plaque hangs in a bombed-out bunker in Normandy to honor a Texan colonel's heroic actions on D-Day.

This 12th century, partially destroyed, abbey has had several owners and was seized during the French Revolution.

The smallest port in France is named after the pirate who created it.

A former milk-delivery driver and his wife turn their home into a glimmering mosaic.

Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.

This symbol of the French Revolution still stands where it was first planted during the 18th-century.

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

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

A daring D-Day assault by U.S. Army Rangers is commemorated atop the high cliffs of this strategic point.

An effigy of a trapped paratrooper dangles from a Normandy church to commemorate one remarkable D-Day event.

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

One of the largest ochre quarries in the world, hidden in a limestone landscape.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

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

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.