Places LaughingCrow Wants to Go

When the imprisoned pope's remains were finally returned to the Vatican, his heart stayed behind in France.

This stone memorial commemorates a group of French patriots slain by French fascists.

Lady Liberty's original designer installed a little clone in this French fountain.

The tomb of a hard traveling saint is constantly covered in shoes as offerings to heal disabled youth.

Small French town or alien garage?

Sky ships, planes, and portraits left as unique tokens of hope and thankfulness.

A garden of massive sculptures sits in Jean Lindard's backyard.

This Corsican Neolithic site is full of pre-Roman megalithic structures that may or may not be penises.

Take black faced bears with giant clubs, white faced barbers wielding axes, hunters armed with shotguns, and mix in a lot of drinking.

An abandoned beach resort in Normandy reclaimed by artists.

Whether hero or rogue, his silver bullet is said to have taken down the murderous "Beast of Gevaudan."

This traditional festival celebrates a family of wooden giants that have survived Nazis, wars, and religion.

A private garden of sculptural eccentricities.

Trek up this glacier before it disappears.

One of the most powerful religious centers in the Middle Ages, dubbed the founder of Western monasticism.

A miniature Corsican village built out of pebbles.

A centuries-old complex of hand-dug stone chambers has sheltered locals in times of trouble.

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

This tiny cafe is one of the last meeting places of its kind, allowing revolutionaries a place to plot.

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

For over 300 years this little carving has been the city’s good luck charm.

The huge golden reliquary of a testicle-smashing saint.

To the famous surrealist artist, liberty required two torches held high.

Balconies that have a most unusual accent.