Minerve, France
Minerve, France
A well-preserved medieval village nested on a rocky outcrop and surrounded by a network of cliffs, natural bridges and canyons.
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Minerve, France
A well-preserved medieval village nested on a rocky outcrop and surrounded by a network of cliffs, natural bridges and canyons.
Chartres, France
A mosaic-tiled house built by graveyard sweeper Raymond Isidore.
Bordeaux, France
The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.
Gémenos, France
A public park off the beaten path with a beautiful waterfall and 13th century Cistercian abbey.
Montségur, France
This French castle is said to have once held the Holy Grail but is now a gorgeous mountaintop ruin.
Maincy, France
This stunning French estate was so lavish that it landed its original owner in jail for the rest of his life.
Carnac, France
Hundreds of prehistoric stones, arranged in perfect lines in a French field.
Cossé-le-Vivien, France
A self-built mosaic house and sculpture park.
Amboise, France
The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.
Roubaix, France
Museum in a swimming pool where the water still flows.
Paris, France
135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.
Aigues-Mortes, France
This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.
Paris, France
Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.
Paris, France
This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.
Paris, France
The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.
Kilkenny, Ireland
A standing relief of a Norman knight whose posture marks him as a Crusader.
Sligo, Ireland
This 30-foot pile of rocks may be the grave of a mythological Irish queen.
Wicklow, Ireland
This ancient Irish tower could easily have stood in for Rapunzel's prison.
Corofin, Ireland
A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.
Inisheer, Ireland
A steam trawler with a whiskey-soaked history driven ashore in 1960 resides rusty but still standing on the shoreline.
Offaly, Ireland
Behemoth, cannon-like telescope operated by generations of Irish earls.
Dublin, Ireland
Amidst the bustling streets of Dublin, there is a hushed garden that is dedicated to "All those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish Freedom."
Wexford, Ireland
After being destroyed by IRA sympathizers, the ruins of this stately Irish manor have sat vacant for decades.
Kilkenny, Ireland
Once the longest bridge in Ireland, this rusting span sits abandoned and overrun by nature.