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This beautiful 14th-century castle perched on a promontory overlooks the Bay of Trieste.

A star-shaped fortress town fort built in the geometric model of the Renaissance utopian city.

When a massive landslide hit one of the world's tallest dams it created a tragic environmental disaster.

Former bridge turned into an observation tower.

One architect's organic, human-centric design has been fully realized in this alien art house.

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

This mosque was based on Sub-Saharan Islamic architecture and created for the Senegalese Tirailleurs.

The ruins stand as a somber reminder of France’s worst civil catastrophe of the 20th century.

Home to fantastic views and ancient graves.

This ancient Roman town was revered for the healing waters of its sacred spring.

The mental institution where Van Gogh created some of his most famous work now allows guests to walk in the artist's footsteps.

Celebrate the end of the Great French Wine Blight with a festival of kissing.

Even France's favorite aquatic son Jacques Cousteau, couldn't get to the bottom of it.

This tiny cafe is one of the last meeting places of its kind, allowing revolutionaries a place to plot.

The castle where the Marquis de Sade lived out his darkest fantasies.

From carts to cars, this leftover Roman bridge in France has managed to survive for centuries.

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

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

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

According to a local legend, this peculiar mountaintop rock formation is actually a demon that was turned into stone.

The second-largest natural arch in the Chartreuse Mountains.

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

A fortified palace in the shape of a ship on the Thiou river.

A suspended footbridge allows for traversing this gorge carved through the French Alps.