Places mossenmoons Wants to Go

This army of concretions is an unexplained geological phenomenon unlike anything else in the world.

An atmospheric, medieval-themed book store hides in a 13th-century underground space.

A sanctuary for wolves in a community which once trembled in fear of the murderous "Beast of Gévaudan."

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

Bordered by forest on three sides and the ocean on the other, the Great Dune of Pilat is the highest sand dune in Europe.

Series of underground houses inhabited continuously for centuries.

Jean Tinguely's bizarre monster sculpture is hidden deep in a forest.

French commune at the heart of conspiracies.

Tens of thousands of ancient rock carvings hidden in the heart of a French national park.

The castle was reconstructed to fit Kaiser Wilhelm II's romanticized vision of the Middle Ages.

A small house sits between two huge rocks, with its back to the sea.

An Orthodox church built by the Royal Family for the Russian community exiled to the French Riviera.

This narrow path was cut right into a French mountainside to feed the country's early naval expansion.

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

This submersible road connecting a French island to the mainland is lined with safety towers for when the tide strands travelers.

The birthplace of the ferocious William the Conqueror, this castle is awash in medieval history.

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

An art world insider finds himself battling for his artistic home.

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

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

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

A quaint medieval millhouse hovers surprisingly above the waters of the Seine.

Trek into the depths of the cave where 17,000-year-old paintings exist alongside 400-year-old graffiti.

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