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The name doubles as an appropriate adjective for this small ossuary.

This German art chapel is perfect for those who like their worship hard, modern, and utterly alien.

Remnants of a cone-shaped Nazi bomb shelter.

The Lone Star plaque hangs in a bombed-out bunker in Normandy to honor a Texan colonel's heroic actions on D-Day.

Winston Churchill painted this lake during his stay Woolsack Castle in the Landes forest.

Former bridge turned into an observation tower.

Auguste Maïcon, a pioneer in French aviation, was born in this house in 1891.

A bizarre sculpture garden in the south of France.

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

A miniature diorama that recounts the brilliant stories of author and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol.

A precariously balanced goose-shaped boulder with a dark legend.

This workshop and small museum is dedicated to tiny, delicate figurines that began as a subversive craft after the French Revolution.

Fur-lined metal pod dangling in the French countryside.

Before this bridge was built people had to wait for the ferryman, an annoyance that, the story has it, gave the town its name.

A little known pile of scraps and plaques mark the grave of a downed RAF bomber.

The tomb of a hard traveling saint is constantly covered in shoes as offerings to heal disabled youth.

Nearly every wall in this French villa has been "tattooed" by artist Jean Cocteau and other famous painters.

Since 1920, one small company has defined the distinctive chairs of Paris' sidewalk bistros.

This stone memorial commemorates a group of French patriots slain by French fascists.

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

The people's champion of the French Revolution was so overcome by grief at his wife's death that he exhumed her in the dead of night to make one final replica of her face.

Supposed home of the camel ridden by Napoleon during his Egyptian campaign.

Peeing dogs guard the Roman hunting goddess atop a fountain at France’s Château de Fontainebleau.

France's highest manned weather station is the only one still inhabited by meteorologists.