Places Sputnicktatorship Wants to Go

The underground mall's skylights look like they could be part of a spaceship.

Preserved portions of Athens's ancient defenses are on display in a subterranean parking garage.

This hidden garden boasts amazing views of Lyon.

Explore the 500-year history of silk-making in Lyon at this museum, workshop, and boutique.

Lyon's "Wall of the Silk Weavers" is one of the largest murals in Europe.

A tiled, multi-level garden of survival in Lyon.

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

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

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.

A medieval military street hidden beneath a charming French fishing village.

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

This ancient theater was once the home of fierce gladiatorial battles.

These medieval ruins have survived since the 12th century, even providing shelter from the Nazis.

Walk through living pictures and music in the Cathedral of Images.

This ancient Roman bridge and aqueduct still stands as a wonder of classical construction.

This folk museum is devoted to small figurines of provincial village life.

This garden houses the remains of the ancient Greek port of Marseille.

"Drunken ship" sculpture memorializing the French poet in the city where he died.

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.

The second-largest natural arch in the Chartreuse Mountains.

This stunning natural double arch, the largest in the Alps, went undiscovered until 2005.

The oldest continuously operating mint in the world that has been making coins since the 9th-century.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.