Arles, France
Arles Amphitheatre
This ancient theater was once the home of fierce gladiatorial battles.
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Arles, France
This ancient theater was once the home of fierce gladiatorial battles.
Creissels, France
The world's tallest bridge is also possibly the most elegant.
Maisons-Alfort, France
The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.
Aubeterre-sur-Dronne, France
The largest underground church in Europe.
Lyon, France
For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.
Chamonix, France
An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.
Oradour-sur-Glane, France
This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.
Paris, France
This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.
Cabrières-d'Avignon, France
A private garden of sculptural eccentricities.
Apt, France
One man's desire to transcend art led to the construction of this outsider chapel.
Prague, Czechia
A saintly relic hidden in a Prague church basement.
Prague, Czechia
The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.
Lisbon, Portugal
Elaborately carved to showcase the glorious wealth that the age of exploration brought to the Portuguese empire.
Paris, France
This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.
Marseille, France
This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.
Bordeaux, France
The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.
New York, New York
Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.
Prague, Czechia
Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.
Krakow, Poland
St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.
Venice, Italy
The pile of books behind the dignified writer gave the statue a most undignified nickname.
Venice, Italy
Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.
Venice, Italy
This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.
Strasbourg, France
Visitors dating back to the 1600s carved their marks in the stones of the iconic tower.
Strasbourg, France
There has been an astronomical clock on this spot since the 14th century.