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This facility has manufactured stunning tapestries for France's royalty ever since the 17th century.

A glamorous hotel that once accommodated French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors.

His "Lionheart" is entombed separately from the rest of his body.

Bordered by forest on three sides and the ocean on the other, the Great Dune of Pilat is the highest sand dune in Europe.

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

Green labyrinth formed by a karstic maze hidden in a preserved oak forest.

This mountain trail inspired Nietzsche to complete his magnum opus.

The not-quite-incorruptible St. Bernadette is perhaps the most beautiful of preserved saints—with a little help from Paris.

Tens of thousands of ancient rock carvings hidden in the heart of a French national park.

This submersible road connecting a French island to the mainland is lined with safety towers for when the tide strands travelers.

Bits of architecture from a town destroyed in World War I now decorate this hotel garden.

The castle was reconstructed to fit Kaiser Wilhelm II's romanticized vision of the Middle Ages.

This otherworldly French waterfall looks like its waters have turned to stone.

This narrow path was cut right into a French mountainside to feed the country's early naval expansion.

Statue of a decomposing prince that once held his heart in its hand.

If they push on just the right spot, even the weakest person can move this titanic boulder.

A unique underground structure dating back to the 1st century BC.

A quaint medieval millhouse hovers surprisingly above the waters of the Seine.

The Church of the Annunciation was carved into the face of a cliff, just like the rest of the town of Haute-Isle.

An Orthodox church built by the Royal Family for the Russian community exiled to the French Riviera.

The birthplace of the ferocious William the Conqueror, this castle is awash in medieval history.

A small house sits between two huge rocks, with its back to the sea.

A centuries-old complex of hand-dug stone chambers has sheltered locals in times of trouble.

An isolated 17th-century chapel on a remarkable site once dedicated to Celtic sun worship.