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Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations

Marseille, France

Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

Église Notre-Dame de Vals (Church of Our Lady of Vals)

Vals, France

Église Notre-Dame de Vals (Church of Our Lady of Vals)

A medieval church built into an ancient cave.

Heliodome

Cosswiller, France

Heliodome

One man's stunning attempt at eco-friendly living.

Villa Des Cent Regards

Montpellier, France

Villa Des Cent Regards

100-windowed castle turned art gallery, built by one dedicated mason.

Arles's Cryptoporticous

Arles, France

Arles's Cryptoporticous

A unique underground structure dating back to the 1st century BC.

La Cave aux Sculptures

Dénezé-sous-Doué, France

La Cave aux Sculptures

Figures of unknown origin carved into the surfaces of underground caves.

Francois Hennebique's Concrete Manor

Bourg-la-Reine, France

Francois Hennebique's Concrete Manor

The man who introduced reinforced concrete to the world demonstrated its genius by using it to build his own house.

The windows from inside.

Apt, France

Chapelle de la Santonne

One man's desire to transcend art led to the construction of this outsider chapel.

La Maison Sculptée.

Amanlis, France

La Maison Sculptée

An enchanting work of outsider art, full of whimsical sculptures and carvings.

The submarine pens in La Rochelle.

La Rochelle, France

Nazi U-Boat Pens, La Pallise

A massive base for the Nazis' most formidable weapon in the Atlantic.

A sailboat cruises the perimeter of the fort

Saint-Georges-d'Oléron, France

Fort Boyard

Fighting the British and making game shows for over 150 years.

Fort Louvois

Bourcefranc-le-Chapus, France

Fort Louvois

A castle-like sea fort from the 17th century is now a museum to oyster farming.

Les Lapidiales

Port-d'Envaux, France

Les Lapidiales

A quarry cum sculpture park where the works of art are chiseled into the very walls.

The Well of Hell.

Le Château-d'Olonne, France

Le Puits d'Enfer (The Well of Hell)

This crack in France's seaside cliffs once hid a sinister secret.

L'île Penotte Seashell Art

Les Sables-d'Olonne, France

L'île Penotte Seashell Art

Wall after wall of this French seaside neighborhood is intricately decorated with seashells and corals.

Chateau de Machecoul

Machecoul, France

Château de Machecoul

The ruins of a medieval castle linked to the murderous French lord that inspired the famous legend of Bluebeard.

Mini-Paris

Vaïssac, France

Mini-Paris

This miniature Paris, built out of trash, is one man's two decade labor of love.

The abandoned galleon.

Deyme, France

The Abandoned Galleon

The deserted pirate-themed restaurant still entices explorers.

The crushed guy is at the bottom of the pillar behind the St. Thomas Aquinas reliquary

Toulouse, France

Church of the Jacobins' Little Crushed Man

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

Passage du Gois

Barbâtre, France

Passage du Gois

This submersible road connecting a French island to the mainland is lined with safety towers for when the tide strands travelers.

The House in the Loire.

Couëron, France

House in the Loire

The sunken structure looks like the victim of a catastrophic flood.

Villa cheminée with the chimneys of the power station in the background.

Bouée, France

Villa Cheminée

This tiny hotel perched atop a 50-foot tower really puts things into perspective.

Serpent D'Océan

Saint-Brevin-les-Pins, France

Serpent D'Océan

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

Suite de triangles.

Saint-Nazaire, France

Suite de Triangles

These red marks, seemingly placed at random, are in fact not.

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