Places miodek Wants to Go

This professional clown's home is an outsider art wonderland.

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

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.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.

A Gothic cathedral created from volcanic rocks.

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

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

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

The largest underground church in Europe.

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

This natural French spring has been turned into a magical grotto by Roman and medieval constructions.

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

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.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.