Places hanssterkendries Wants to Go

Half a century after it was abandoned, this ghost town is coming back to life.

Now a memorial, this factory was once used as a concentration camp for artists by the Vichy government.

One of the most powerful religious centers in the Middle Ages, dubbed the founder of Western monasticism.

Limestone grottoes turns everyday objects into stone.

A 2017 crowdfunding campaign saved this historic castle from being destroyed.

Old vessels have been transformed into artistic canvases in this unusual cemetery.

Walk through living pictures and music in the Cathedral of Images.

Tens of thousands of ancient rock carvings hidden in the heart of a French national park.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

France's high-tech, future-themed amusement park.

This otherworldly French waterfall looks like its waters have turned to stone.

The deserted pirate-themed restaurant still entices explorers.

A medieval church with largest and oldest collection of Renaissance frescoes in France.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

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

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

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

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

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

The tallest lighthouse in the Nordic countries was also the site of a bloody World War II battle.

Rent out a glass igloo to watch the Northern Lights like you live in the future.