Places ieanferdinand Wants to Go

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

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

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

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.

Underneath a chalk hill in France lies what Hitler hoped would be the underground launching base for a devastating new weapon.

This futuristic observatory at the top of the Pyrénées offers unrivaled views.

The remains of 40,000 humans, meticulously stacked in a tiny churchyard shed.

Bits of architecture from a town destroyed in World War I now decorate this hotel garden.

The Church of the Annunciation was carved into the face of a cliff, just like the rest of the town of Haute-Isle.

The not-quite-incorruptible St. Bernadette is perhaps the most beautiful of preserved saints—with a little help from Paris.

This narrow path was cut right into a French mountainside to feed the country's early naval expansion.

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

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

Perfume museum and library.

Hundreds of dwarf beeches create an unusual, haunting forest in the north of France.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

A well-preserved medieval village nested on a rocky outcrop and surrounded by a network of cliffs, natural bridges and canyons.

If they push on just the right spot, even the weakest person can move this titanic boulder.

Statue of a decomposing prince that once held his heart in its hand.

This stunning French estate was so lavish that it landed its original owner in jail for the rest of his life.

A chapel on a volcanic core, marking the end of a successful journey.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

BDSM, 1930s Style.