Province of Matera, Italy
The Village of Craco
An Italian hillside ghost town.
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Province of Matera, Italy
An Italian hillside ghost town.
Balestrino, Italy
Abandoned medieval hill town.
Saturnia, Italy
Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.
Montegabbione (TR), Italy
This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.
Vaglia, Italy
Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.
Sainte-Enimie, France
Live-in sculpture begun by one family in 1979.
Y, France
This small commune with an even smaller name appears to have an unlikely amount of dead ancestors.
Saint-Laurent-d'Aigouze, France
This historic stone gate tower is now just a lonely relic in the middle of a swamp.
Porto-Vecchio, France
A resort destroyed by a mysterious bombing offers visitors only its remains and the riddle behind it's demise.
Font-Romeu-Odeillo-Via, France
The world's largest solar furnace uses 10,000 mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays to generate power.
La Teste-de-Buch, France
Bordered by forest on three sides and the ocean on the other, the Great Dune of Pilat is the highest sand dune in Europe.
Dives-sur-Mer, France
Personal garden filled with mosaics made of recycled garbage.
Vascœuil, France
To the famous surrealist artist, liberty required two torches held high.
Marseille, France
Longest canal tunnel in the world, abandoned in the 1960s.
Rustrel, France
One of the largest ochre quarries in the world, hidden in a limestone landscape.
Roquevaire, France
Artist Danielle Jacqui decorates nearly every inch of her home inside and out with her work.
Saint-Georges-d'Oléron, France
Fighting the British and making game shows for over 150 years.
Vernon, France
A quaint medieval millhouse hovers surprisingly above the waters of the Seine.
Minerve, France
A well-preserved medieval village nested on a rocky outcrop and surrounded by a network of cliffs, natural bridges and canyons.
Aigues-Mortes, France
This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.
Fontenay-en-Parisis, France
The post-apocalyptic remnants of a bucolic town ruined by a plane crash.
Sers, France
This futuristic observatory at the top of the Pyrénées offers unrivaled views.
Saint-Étienne, France
An architectural oddity of six stories, accessed by graceful ramps.
Etsaut, France
This narrow path was cut right into a French mountainside to feed the country's early naval expansion.