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

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

The mental institution where Van Gogh created some of his most famous work now allows guests to walk in the artist's footsteps.

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

This frog-themed restaurant was frequented by Picasso, Saint-Exupéry, and more.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

A 14th century bridge built as a fortress, where the devil lurks on one of its towers.

A cave dwelling that was started by the Celts, expanded by monks, and finished by knights.

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

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

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

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.