The first modern cemetery of Lyon is complete with more than 200 chapels and monuments.

A fortified palace in the shape of a ship on the Thiou river.

The site where two doves fell in love.

Montmartre's sole surviving windmill became an iconic landmark for 19th-century painters, artists, and bohemians.

This oddly shaped boulder in Paris is rumored to be cursed.

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

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

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

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

For more than a century, Parisians have come for affordable dishes in a grand converted train station.

This stunning French estate was so lavish that it landed its original owner in jail for the rest of his life.

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte were fans of this 200-year-old French chocolatier.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

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.

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

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

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.