Places glenswatman Wants to Go

Museum in a swimming pool where the water still flows.

This collection of French root art looks like an indoor fairy wonderland.

A public park off the beaten path with a beautiful waterfall and 13th century Cistercian abbey.

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

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.

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

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

Beautiful carved tunnels.

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

The Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques is one of the oldest pet cemeteries in the world.

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

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

The fantastic architectural models of a French traveler.

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

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

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.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

Two small chapels housed inside an ancient tree.