Places Lillive Wants to Go

Avant garde house of Pierre Cardin on the Cote d’Azur.

One architect's organic, human-centric design has been fully realized in this alien art house.

A fortress on this island housed the mysterious prisoner known as the "Man in the Iron Mask" for more than a decade.

A reconstruction of a classic mansion on the island of Delos was designed for a historian and archaeologist.

A place to see how French aristocrats lived in the early 1900s.

Auguste Maïcon, a pioneer in French aviation, was born in this house in 1891.

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

A cast iron Fiat 500 sculpture overlooks the sea at Port Lympia.

The last remaining example of a painted house from the medieval period in Nice.

A meeting of art and architecture adorns this 5 star hotel

One of only a few red brick buildings in Nice.

This castle was once an Italian horror cinema star.

Only the facade of this house was built so a father could fool his son.

A chapel where women can demand their true love.

A crumbling island fortress that seems to be covered in a field of stone crosses but is simply incomplete.

For a brief time in 1960s France, families could climb into a tiny submarine and be pulled along an underwater journey.

Longest canal tunnel in the world, abandoned in the 1960s.

What if all public housing projects had been designed by "the Pygmalion of modern architecture," not only their prototype?

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

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

Thousands of flamingos and other bird species flourish in these Camargue wetlands.

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