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Trembling Rock

Huelgoat, France

Trembling Rock

If they push on just the right spot, even the weakest person can move this titanic boulder.

LaBeL RéCuP' store front.

Paris, France

LaBeL RéCuP'

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

Abandoned Chateau

Fontenay-en-Parisis, France

Goussainville-Vieux Pays

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

Pirou-Plage is located near the beach and was intended to be a holiday village, complete with hotel, houses and tennis courts.
Permanently Closed

Pirou, France

Pirou-Plage Ghost Village

An abandoned beach resort in Normandy reclaimed by artists.

The Abode of Chaos

Saint-Romain-au-Mont-d'Or, France

The Abode of Chaos

An art world insider finds himself battling for his artistic home.

36 Rue Saint Sulpice

Paris, France

36 Rue Saint Sulpice

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

Inside the ossuary

Marville, France

Marville Ossuary

The remains of 40,000 humans, meticulously stacked in a tiny churchyard shed.

(WikiCommons)

Carnac, France

Carnac Stones

Hundreds of prehistoric stones, arranged in perfect lines in a French field.

(Flickr/zopeuse)

Lyon, France

Jardin Rosa Mir

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

Pep's shop in Passage de l'Ancre, de St-Martin
Permanently Closed

Paris, France

Pep's Maison

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

Medici Column

Paris, France

Medici Column

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

The Fountain of the Innocents is one of the few surviving pieces of the lost cemetery.

Paris, France

Fountain of Innocents

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

 Vélorails Pays Chartrain

Bailleau-Armenonville, France

Vélorails Pays Chartrain

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

Strasbourg Astronomical Clock

Strasbourg, France

Strasbourg Astronomical Clock

There has been an astronomical clock on this spot since the 14th century.

The Head of St. John the Baptist in 2001.

Amiens, France

The Head of St. John the Baptist at Amiens Cathedral

The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.

Chapelle Saint Michel d'Aiguilhe (St. Michael of the Needle)

Le Puy, France

Saint Michel d'Aiguilhe (St. Michael of the Needle)

A chapel on a volcanic core, marking the end of a successful journey.

The gardens of Jardin d'Acclimatation

Paris, France

Jardin d'Acclimatation

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

The Grand Lodge of France

Paris, France

The Grand Lodge of France

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

Miroir d'eau

Bordeaux, France

Miroir d'eau

The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.

Grave of Vincent and Theo van Gogh, Auvers-sur-Oise, France

Auvers-sur-Oise, France

Grave of Vincent and Theo van Gogh

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

A view of the street and its arches.

Villefranche-sur-Mer, France

The Rue Obscure

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

Le Chat Noir.

Paris, France

Le Chat Noir Collection

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

Musee Robert Tatin

Cossé-le-Vivien, France

Musee Robert Tatin

A self-built mosaic house and sculpture park.

La Piscine museum in Roubaix.

Roubaix, France

La Piscine

Museum in a swimming pool where the water still flows.

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