Places n77u Wants to Go

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

Beautiful carved tunnels.

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

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

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

This stunning natural double arch, the largest in the Alps, went undiscovered until 2005.

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.

Marvel at the opulent Art Nouveau interior while dining on dirt-cheap French classics.

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

Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte were fans of this 200-year-old French chocolatier.

A medieval military street hidden beneath a charming French fishing village.

An enchanting work of outsider art, full of whimsical sculptures and carvings.

Order a boozy baba au rhum at the oldest patisserie in Paris.

The largest underground church in Europe.

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.

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

This recessed garden protects thousands of mountain plants by creating its own microclimates.

A French valley with forests so lush it was nicknamed "the Small Amazonia of the Pyrenees."

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.