Places Laura Andersen Wants to Go

This little train station is forever immortalized in film history.

A private garden of sculptural eccentricities.

This tiny cafe is one of the last meeting places of its kind, allowing revolutionaries a place to plot.

This folk museum is devoted to small figurines of provincial village life.

700 iron sculptures crammed into a Mediterranean park.

Buddha and Jesus tower over this French mountainside headquarters of the Aumism religious cult.

The castle where the Marquis de Sade lived out his darkest fantasies.

This mosque was based on Sub-Saharan Islamic architecture and created for the Senegalese Tirailleurs.

The ruins stand as a somber reminder of France’s worst civil catastrophe of the 20th century.

Balconies that have a most unusual accent.

The Nobel-Prize-winning author of The Stranger is buried beneath a simple gravestone in a sleepy French village.

"Drunken ship" sculpture memorializing the French poet in the city where he died.

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

Nearly every wall in this French villa has been "tattooed" by artist Jean Cocteau and other famous painters.

Sculpture of a legendary French dragon.

This garden houses the remains of the ancient Greek port of Marseille.

Now a memorial, this factory was once used as a concentration camp for artists by the Vichy government.

Even France's favorite aquatic son Jacques Cousteau, couldn't get to the bottom of it.

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

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

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

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.

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