Places poppyhuskisson Wants to Go

Personal garden filled with mosaics made of recycled garbage.

Folklore and history carved into Brittany's coast.

An unsettling shrine dedicated to the ravenous beast that prowled 18th-century France.

Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.

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

Legend has it this 11th-century castle was paid a visit from the devil.

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

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

This futuristic observatory at the top of the Pyrénées offers unrivaled views.

This collection of French root art looks like an indoor fairy wonderland.

A self-built mosaic house and sculpture park.

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

An ancient monastery, a locked room, and a mysterious book heist.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

Two small chapels housed inside an ancient tree.

The fantastic architectural models of a French traveler.

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

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

In a boatyard near Aberdyfi is a nautically inspired work of art.

The remains of a small medieval chapel mark the legendary birthplace of the patron saint of Wales.