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

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

A cave dwelling that was started by the Celts, expanded by monks, and finished by knights.

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

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

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

This striking fort on the Maginot Line looks just as it did after being destroyed in the Fall of France.

This disused Cold War bunker has been restored to all of its early 60s glory.

A century-old tradition has culminated in a small but singular collection of feline effigies.

The recreated ruins of a house designed to memorialize a World War I shelling on the town.

This tiny traditional smokehouse is the only one left in this historic fishing port.

It is against the law to obstruct the view from the top of this English burial mound.

At 1,732 feet above sea level, this spectacularly isolated yet surprisingly bustling bar is the highest pub in Britain.

A labyrinthine underworld of tunnels and caverns hides beneath the city.

There's a labyrinth of medieval chambers hidden deep below a 15th-century pub.

This bronze statue was dedicated to a 1966 Beatles hit.