Places Paiva Wants to Go

A tiled, multi-level garden of survival in Lyon.

A self-built mosaic house and sculpture park.

There has been an astronomical clock on this spot since the 14th century.

A medieval church with largest and oldest collection of Renaissance frescoes in France.

Since ancient times these picturesque springs have been providing bathers with healing waters.

The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.

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

Beautiful carved tunnels.

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

This ancient Roman bridge and aqueduct still stands as a wonder of classical construction.

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

A public park off the beaten path with a beautiful waterfall and 13th century Cistercian abbey.

The fantastic architectural models of a French traveler.

These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.

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

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

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

A natural arch carved by a river gave its name to the so-called "Cave of Forgotten Dreams."

Avant garde house of Pierre Cardin on the Cote d’Azur.

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

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

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

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.