Places piccolo8va Wants to Go

This triumphal arch celebrating the Sun King's conquest of Lille is a masterpiece of military architecture.

An unusual sand beach in the middle of a forest.

This unusual piece of Renaissance art depicting the bodily horror of crucifixion and skin disease may have been inspired by fungus-induced hallucinations.

This remarkable checkered church on a Corsican hilltop is fabled to have been built by angels.

A beautiful lighthouse with as many steps as days in the year, as many windows as weeks, and as many levels as months.

This army of concretions is an unexplained geological phenomenon unlike anything else in the world.

Sky ships, planes, and portraits left as unique tokens of hope and thankfulness.

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

Immortalized by artists, this church incorporates a medieval lighthouse into its shoreside structure.

The huge golden reliquary of a testicle-smashing saint.

A gothic church dedicated to the love of wine.

Grottoes, sculptures, and recycled ceramics permeate what was once just a small farm in France.

Balconies that have a most unusual accent.

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

A resort destroyed by a mysterious bombing offers visitors only its remains and the riddle behind it's demise.

This historic stone gate tower is now just a lonely relic in the middle of a swamp.

Sleep in the hay, spin the wheel and eat grain pellets to your heart's delight.

An effigy of a trapped paratrooper dangles from a Normandy church to commemorate one remarkable D-Day event.

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

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

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

For a brief time in 1960s France, families could climb into a tiny submarine and be pulled along an underwater journey.

Visitors dating back to the 1600s carved their marks in the stones of the iconic tower.

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