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

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

A private garden of sculptural eccentricities.

A miniature Corsican village built out of pebbles.

This disused boat elevator was saved from the scrap heap so that visitors could tour its rusting skeleton.

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

Live-in sculpture begun by one family in 1979.

A unique museum tells the story of the day-to-day life of World War I soldiers.

Europe's largest community of crocodiles and alligators.

Before the electric telegraph, a chain of stone towers carried messages across France.

Huge Russian Orthodox cemetery in danger of being converted into open public space.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

This unusual piece of Renaissance art depicting the bodily horror of crucifixion and skin disease may have been inspired by fungus-induced hallucinations.

The writer took refuge in this home in Southern France for the last 17 years of his life.

700 iron sculptures crammed into a Mediterranean park.

Whether hero or rogue, his silver bullet is said to have taken down the murderous "Beast of Gevaudan."

This remarkable checkered church on a Corsican hilltop is fabled to have been built by angels.

A quarry cum sculpture park where the works of art are chiseled into the very walls.

This "social palace" housing complex created a relatively stable and self-contained worker's society... for a time.

A 13th century fortified house built to defend the Duchy of Burgundy.

A small world of mechanical magic and metal merry-go-rounds in an outsider art museum.

Sky ships, planes, and portraits left as unique tokens of hope and thankfulness.

Immortalized by artists, this church incorporates a medieval lighthouse into its shoreside structure.

Abandoned blockhouses from Nazi Germany's Atlantic Wall erode into the sea on a French beach.