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This professional clown's home is an outsider art wonderland.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

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

A public park off the beaten path with a beautiful waterfall and 13th century Cistercian abbey.

Ivy-covered Medieval tunnels cut through this charming town in France's Loire Valley.

The fantastic architectural models of a French traveler.

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

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

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

A French valley with forests so lush it was nicknamed "the Small Amazonia of the Pyrenees."

BDSM, 1930s Style.

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

A Gothic cathedral created from volcanic rocks.

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

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

The largest underground church in Europe.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.