Folklore and history carved into Brittany's coast.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

A simple plaque on the facade is the only reminder that the treaty ending the American Revolution was signed inside.

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

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

Hundreds of prehistoric stones, arranged in perfect lines in a French field.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

The narrowest street in Paris.

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

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

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

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.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

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