Places robinguthrie Wants to Go

What if all public housing projects had been designed by "the Pygmalion of modern architecture," not only their prototype?

Old vessels have been transformed into artistic canvases in this unusual cemetery.

This miniature Paris, built out of trash, is one man's two decade labor of love.

A castle-like sea fort from the 17th century is now a museum to oyster farming.

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

Longest canal tunnel in the world, abandoned in the 1960s.

For those late-night mollusk cravings.

Abandoned blockhouses from Nazi Germany's Atlantic Wall erode into the sea on a French beach.

France's Lilliputian park displays over 100 of the country's monuments for visitor perusal.

Site of one of World War I's most horrific scenes.

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

Resting on a hill overlooking the coast, these medieval ruins look completely deserted save for their restored chapel.

An underground city of ancient quarry tunnels hid thousands of Allied soldiers in WWI.

A remote hilltop covered in giant monoliths haunts the Brittany countryside.

The world's most famous cheese caves.

A massive base for the Nazis' most formidable weapon in the Atlantic.

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

Underneath a chalk hill in France lies what Hitler hoped would be the underground launching base for a devastating new weapon.

Nicknamed the "Museum of Horrors," this French anatomical collection has been fascinating visitors for over a century.

These crumbling Nazi artillery bunkers are now fair game for massive graffiti projects.

A bike train runs along a disused railway line through the tranquil French countryside.

The post-apocalyptic remnants of a bucolic town ruined by a plane crash.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

The sunken structure looks like the victim of a catastrophic flood.