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An ancient monastery, a locked room, and a mysterious book heist.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.

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

The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.

A public park off the beaten path with a beautiful waterfall and 13th century Cistercian abbey.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte were fans of this 200-year-old French chocolatier.

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

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

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

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

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

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

Ivy-covered Medieval tunnels cut through this charming town in France's Loire Valley.

The largest underground church in Europe.

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

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

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

This natural French spring has been turned into a magical grotto by Roman and medieval constructions.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

A French valley with forests so lush it was nicknamed "the Small Amazonia of the Pyrenees."