Places Pengwn Wants to Go

Even France's favorite aquatic son Jacques Cousteau, couldn't get to the bottom of it.

From carts to cars, this leftover Roman bridge in France has managed to survive for centuries.

One man's desire to transcend art led to the construction of this outsider chapel.

An often-shuddersome journey into a low-tech, robotic themepark.

Artist Danielle Jacqui decorates nearly every inch of her home inside and out with her work.

Sleep in a climate-controlled plastic bubble for the night.

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

This folk museum is devoted to small figurines of provincial village life.

A neighborhood church's unusual abstract stained glass was the final project of avant-garde artist Jean Cocteau.

Each spring, a dreamlike carpet of bluebells overtakes the forest floor.

This statue honors the thousands of Allied avians that served and died for France during World War I.

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

The world's largest boar is a huge steel titan found at a French rest stop.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

To the famous surrealist artist, liberty required two torches held high.

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.

Peeing dogs guard the Roman hunting goddess atop a fountain at France’s Château de Fontainebleau.

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

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

The Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques is one of the oldest pet cemeteries in the world.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.