Places rosetatarsky Wants to Go

Home to fantastic views and ancient graves.

One of the oldest and largest wooden churches in France was very evidently constructed by shipbuilders.

These unique markers designate the route American forces took during the Liberation of France.

More than 140 granite sculptures decorate the lawn of this French sculptor.

A letterpress workshop committed to the art of printing, with unique and creative designs.

This massive sculptural work outside of Paris was four decades in the making—and it's still not quite complete.

Celebrate the end of the Great French Wine Blight with a festival of kissing.

The home where the famous astrologer wrote some of his most telling prophecies.

Each of these hand-painted wooden boxes, which date to between the 16th and 19th centuries, contains a genuine human skull.

This pair of running lions engraved on animal bone is one of the earliest artistic depictions of big cats.

This church looks more like a spaceship than a house of worship.

The way that light hits a stained glass window on a specific day is one of many "clues" to a mysterious treasure.

Deep in the limestone cliffs of the Alabaster Coast, a German fortress built during World War II.

Unable to build support structures on glaciers, the engineers for this tramway were forced to design a unique system.

Ride the rails on a train harkening back to a 19th-century marvel.

When the imprisoned pope's remains were finally returned to the Vatican, his heart stayed behind in France.

A unique military outpost carved into a rocky outcrop in the English Channel.

A once drab public housing estate is transformed into a colorful gallery of trompe l’oeil murals.

France's third-largest necropolis offers a peaceful respite from a busy port city.

Every half hour, the flow of this unusual spring cycles between a rush of water and barely a trickle.

A massively oversized measuring tape sculpture sits inside a hidden yard.

Abandoned outpost once home to a murderous tyrant.

The remains of this ornate chapel now act as a portal to a cramped French cemetery.

Wander among free-roaming storks at the sanctuary that helped save them from local extinction.