Places meltingknight Wants to Go

These medieval ruins have survived since the 12th century, even providing shelter from the Nazis.

Legend has it this 11th-century castle was paid a visit from the devil.

The ruins of a medieval castle linked to the murderous French lord that inspired the famous legend of Bluebeard.

France's Lilliputian park displays over 100 of the country's monuments for visitor perusal.

Series of underground houses inhabited continuously for centuries.

To the famous surrealist artist, liberty required two torches held high.

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

From carts to cars, this leftover Roman bridge in France has managed to survive for centuries.

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

The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.

The world's most famous cheese caves.

An architectural oddity of six stories, accessed by graceful ramps.

This otherworldly French waterfall looks like its waters have turned to stone.

There is a strange little carving of a person seemingly crushed by a pillar behind the remains of St. Thomas Aquinas.

A French library that makes sure its love of books is writ large... giant in fact.

Miles of man-made caves and tunnels are currently used for cultivating mushrooms.

Figures of unknown origin carved into the surfaces of underground caves.

Despite centuries of architectural innovation, this French castle is being built like it's the 13th century.

Underneath a chalk hill in France lies what Hitler hoped would be the underground launching base for a devastating new weapon.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

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