Places meltingknight Wants to Go

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

Statue of a decomposing prince that once held his heart in its hand.

A colossal sculptural lion built by the same man who designed the Statue of Liberty.

The Church of the Annunciation was carved into the face of a cliff, just like the rest of the town of Haute-Isle.

Bits of architecture from a town destroyed in World War I now decorate this hotel garden.

One of the world's most complex timepieces.

There has been an astronomical clock on this spot since the 14th century.

This crumbling, graffiti-covered mansion sits tantalizingly within reach of the proletariat who frequent a public park.

The post-apocalyptic remnants of a bucolic town ruined by a plane crash.

Hundreds of dwarf beeches create an unusual, haunting forest in the north of France.

A tiled, multi-level garden of survival in Lyon.

Hundreds of prehistoric stones, arranged in perfect lines in a French field.

The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

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

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

This French castle is said to have once held the Holy Grail but is now a gorgeous mountaintop ruin.

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

The world's tallest bridge is also possibly the most elegant.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.