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The church of San Michele de Murato

Murato, France

San Michele de Murato

This remarkable checkered church on a Corsican hilltop is fabled to have been built by angels.

Abbey of St. Evroul.

Saint-Evroult-Notre-Dame-du-Bois, France

Ruins of Abbey of Saint-Evroul

This 1,400-year-old abbey was once a powerhouse for music and intellectualism known across Normandy.

Emile Taugourdeau’s Zoological Garden

Thorée-les-Pins, France

Emile Taugourdeau’s Zoological Garden

One man's fifteen-year diversion lead to a garden of intriguing sculptures.

The Standing Stones House

Louveciennes, France

The Standing Stones House

One of the last realized projects of an influential, self-taught, French Modernist architect Jacques Couëlle.

Notre-Dame-des-Anges

Collioure, France

Notre-Dame-des-Anges

Immortalized by artists, this church incorporates a medieval lighthouse into its shoreside structure.

Roland Dutel's and his partner transformed Dutel's courtyard to a sculpture yard.

Dieulefit, France

La Demeure Aux Figures

Grottoes, sculptures, and recycled ceramics permeate what was once just a small farm in France.

Monument Arthur Rimbaud

Marseille, France

Monument Arthur Rimbaud

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

The gardens at the Désert de Retz

Chambourcy, France

The Désert de Retz

Shattered columns and Egyptian pyramids outside of Paris.

A street marker on the road to Y.

Y, France

Y, France

This small commune with an even smaller name appears to have an unlikely amount of dead ancestors.

http://waxmoth.com/france_2007/Boheme/la_boheme.html

Yviers, France

La Bohème

The bizarre home and sculpture garden of an eccentric artist.

Carbonniere Tower

Saint-Laurent-d'Aigouze, France

Carbonniere Tower

This historic stone gate tower is now just a lonely relic in the middle of a swamp.

Alfonso's deceptively simple color palette at play

Marseille, France

Unite d'Habitation and the Radiant City

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

The abandoned Club 47

Monbalen, France

Club 47

An abandoned nightclub has become a vibrant work of art.

Mandarom in 2010

Castellane, France

Mandarom

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

Cala Longa's Resort Ruins

Porto-Vecchio, France

Cala Longa's Resort Ruins

A resort destroyed by a mysterious bombing offers visitors only its remains and the riddle behind it's demise.

Waves lap the shore of Capo Testa (Flickr/Frengo2.0)

Capo Testa, Italy

Capo Testa Rock Formations

Windblown rock formations in an ancient Roman quarry.

Amnesia Nightclub Ruins
Permanently Closed

Bonifacio, France

Amnesia Nightclub Ruins

Once the hottest nightclub in France, Amnesia now lies in ruins after a 2000 bombing.

Statue of the Tarasque in Tarascon (WikiCommons)

Tarascon, France

Tarasque

Sculpture of a legendary French dragon.

(Flickr/Olivier Nade)

Bugarach, France

Bugarach

Small French town or alien garage?

Bordeaux Statue of Liberty

Bordeaux, France

Bordeaux Statue of Liberty

Lady Liberty's original designer installed a little clone in this French fountain.

le téléscaphe in the 60s

Marseille, France

Le Téléscaphe

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

'Le Pouce,' The Giant Thumb Sculpture

Puteaux, France

'Le Pouce,' The Giant Thumb Sculpture

César Baldaccini's iconic sculpture of a 40-foot thumb stands tall in La Défense.

Carrière d'Aubigny

Taingy, France

Carrière d'Aubigny

This former limestone quarry is now a subterranean wonderland of grand stonework.

Graffiti from 1611.

Strasbourg, France

Strasbourg Cathedral's Antique Graffiti

Visitors dating back to the 1600s carved their marks in the stones of the iconic tower.

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