Guests can stay at a hotel in the former French abbey where lie the tombs of King Henry II and King Richard the Lionheart.

The opulent home that inspired Tintin's Marlinspike Hall and the adventures within.

A well-preserved medieval village nested on a rocky outcrop and surrounded by a network of cliffs, natural bridges and canyons.

French commune at the heart of conspiracies.

This French castle is said to have once held the Holy Grail but is now a gorgeous mountaintop ruin.

These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

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.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.

The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

In pastoral England, a plaque marks where an imaginary community addressed the problem of combat mortality.