The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.

Marvel at the opulent Art Nouveau interior while dining on dirt-cheap French classics.

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

Order a boozy baba au rhum at the oldest patisserie in Paris.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

A medieval military street hidden beneath a charming French fishing village.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

This recessed garden protects thousands of mountain plants by creating its own microclimates.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

Unable to build support structures on glaciers, the engineers for this tramway were forced to design a unique system.

Trek up this glacier before it disappears.

Every year, a sparkling cave is sculpted in the icy heart of a glacier.

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

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

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.