Places nlspiewak Wants to Go

This Bordeaux parking garage has 712 indoor spaces, and one outdoor.

This 1,400-year-old abbey was once a powerhouse for music and intellectualism known across Normandy.

Natural mummies hidden in the crypt of a medieval French church.

This hidden garden boasts amazing views of Lyon.

For over 300 years this little carving has been the city’s good luck charm.

Lyon's "Wall of the Silk Weavers" is one of the largest murals in Europe.

A colorful piece of contemporary art cheerfully clashes with Lyon's historical architecture.

His "Lionheart" is entombed separately from the rest of his body.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

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

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

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

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

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

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

The remains of 40,000 humans, meticulously stacked in a tiny churchyard shed.

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

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

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

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

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

Ivy-covered Medieval tunnels cut through this charming town in France's Loire Valley.

A Gothic cathedral created from volcanic rocks.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.