Les Trois-Moutiers, France
Château de la Mothe-Chandeniers
A 2017 crowdfunding campaign saved this historic castle from being destroyed.
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Les Trois-Moutiers, France
A 2017 crowdfunding campaign saved this historic castle from being destroyed.
Paris, France
A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.
Le Puy, France
A chapel on a volcanic core, marking the end of a successful journey.
Arles, France
This ancient theater was once the home of fierce gladiatorial battles.
Montségur, France
This French castle is said to have once held the Holy Grail but is now a gorgeous mountaintop ruin.
Lyon, France
A tiled, multi-level garden of survival in Lyon.
Vers-Pont-du-Gard, France
This ancient Roman bridge and aqueduct still stands as a wonder of classical construction.
Saint-Georges-des-Sept-Voies, France
Beautiful carved tunnels.
Gémenos, France
A public park off the beaten path with a beautiful waterfall and 13th century Cistercian abbey.
Saint-Bernard, France
This stunning natural double arch, the largest in the Alps, went undiscovered until 2005.
Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, France
A natural arch carved by a river gave its name to the so-called "Cave of Forgotten Dreams."
Minerve, France
A well-preserved medieval village nested on a rocky outcrop and surrounded by a network of cliffs, natural bridges and canyons.
Cahors, France
A 14th century bridge built as a fortress, where the devil lurks on one of its towers.
Asque, France
A French valley with forests so lush it was nicknamed "the Small Amazonia of the Pyrenees."
Giverny, France
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.
Saint-Pierre-Colamine, France
A cave dwelling that was started by the Celts, expanded by monks, and finished by knights.
Chamonix, France
An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.
Marseille, France
This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.
Aigues-Mortes, France
This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.
Montignac, France
Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."
Peaugres, France
One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.
Paris, France
Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."
Jumièges, France
Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.
Paris, France
This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.