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One of the last Breton ossuaries still preserving the bones of the dead.

A neighborhood with Art Deco architecture as eccentric as its history.

This village in the northeast of France is packed with book shops.

Among Europe’s most spectacular Ice Age painted caves still accessible today.

A haunting museum chronicling the bloodiest battlefield of World War I.

An underground tropical garden sits inside a Paris Métro Station.

This stone angel is one of the biggest caryatids in all of Paris.

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

A haunting medieval mural of the Danse Macabre graces the walls of this church.

This pair of running lions engraved on animal bone is one of the earliest artistic depictions of big cats.

Ride the rails on a train harkening back to a 19th-century marvel.

A monument to the thousands of Canadian soldiers who died capturing the French ridge during World War I.

In France, a medieval-style home pays homage to an intrepid explorer who discovered Québec.

This prehistoric figurine is the oldest known realistic depiction of a human face.

This tower is one of the best-preserved (and least-visited) remnants of medieval Paris.

Medieval Danse Macabre Fresco in Northern Brittany.

The ruins of an abandoned cemetery are among the last remnants of the old village of La Boulaye before a wealthy landowner had it relocated.

Memorializing the bravery of one young woman facing the monster of her age.

The haunting cadaver tomb of a famous French poet, playwright, and filmmaker.

This statue honors the thousands of Allied avians that served and died for France during World War I.

The little tuxedo cat survived the trip, then languished in obscurity.

Exquisite examples prehistoric bas-relief carvings.

An image of the legendary saint stands in the shadow of a cathedral she liberated.

These colorful French islands spent a stint bootlegging booze during American Prohibition.