Places katec8100 Wants to Go

Two small chapels housed inside an ancient tree.

Two ancient yew trees with a chapel and an altar built inside their hollow trunks.

The Jardin d'Étretat is populated by over-sized raindrop sculptures that make funny faces at visitors.

One of the oldest and largest wooden churches in France was very evidently constructed by shipbuilders.

An art-filled botanical garden and former dyeworks hiding in plain sight.

The birthplace of the ferocious William the Conqueror, this castle is awash in medieval history.

Personal garden filled with mosaics made of recycled garbage.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

This 12th century, partially destroyed, abbey has had several owners and was seized during the French Revolution.

On this romantic tidal island reachable only at low tide the tomb of a famous French writer overlooks the sea.

A beautiful lighthouse with as many steps as days in the year, as many windows as weeks, and as many levels as months.

This World War II bunker is now a shrine covered with sea shells.

An intricately decorated tiny place of worship.

The first island in the world designated a light-pollution-free astronomical observation point.

A road that ends in the middle of a farmer’s field is one of the only remnants of this once-famous racetrack.

One of the last realized projects of an influential, self-taught, French Modernist architect Jacques Couëlle.

This charming, flower-filled, paved cul-de-sac is filled with artists' studio-houses built in the 1920s.

This hidden workshop is filled with molds of France's most iconic sculptures.

The Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques is one of the oldest pet cemeteries in the world.

This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

Grab a life-changing ham sandwich at this former horse butchershop.