Leffrinckoucke, France
Leffrinckoucke Bunkers
These crumbling Nazi artillery bunkers are now fair game for massive graffiti projects.
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Leffrinckoucke, France
These crumbling Nazi artillery bunkers are now fair game for massive graffiti projects.
Fleury-devant-Douaumont, France
A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.
Deyme, France
The deserted pirate-themed restaurant still entices explorers.
Pirou, France
An abandoned beach resort in Normandy reclaimed by artists.
Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
A medieval military street hidden beneath a charming French fishing village.
Chartres, France
A mosaic-tiled house built by graveyard sweeper Raymond Isidore.
Gémenos, France
A public park off the beaten path with a beautiful waterfall and 13th century Cistercian abbey.
Valenciennes, France
This is what trains will look like after the zombie apocalypse.
Ottrott, France
An ancient monastery, a locked room, and a mysterious book heist.
Lyon, France
Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.
Aigues-Mortes, France
This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.
Ventotene, Italy
Built to be the ideal penitentiary, this abandoned panopticon saw several revolts and even a prisoners' coup.
Giverny, France
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.
Paris, France
A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.
Lyon, France
Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.
Paris, France
The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.
Paris, France
The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.
Paris, France
This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.
Paris, France
A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.
Colares, Portugal
The verdant mossy ruins of a Franciscan monastery lie in the remote Sintra hills awaiting exploration.
Craighat, Scotland
A strange rock with a sinister reputation lurks within the crimson waters of this Scottish glen.
Bender, Moldova
A unique collection of Soviet military artifacts lies hidden away in a disused train, in the unrecognized Eastern European republic of Transnistria.
Leek, England
This haunting stone chasm is a hotbed of mossy rock and English legend.
Soriano nel Cimino, Italy
Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini fell in love with this lonely 13th-century tower while making his most famous film.