Places toniamonkey Wants to Go

A mosaic-tiled house built by graveyard sweeper Raymond Isidore.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.

The fantastic architectural models of a French traveler.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

A natural arch carved by a river gave its name to the so-called "Cave of Forgotten Dreams."

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

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

This professional clown's home is an outsider art wonderland.

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

Avant garde house of Pierre Cardin on the Cote d’Azur.

These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.

A French valley with forests so lush it was nicknamed "the Small Amazonia of the Pyrenees."

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

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

A well-preserved medieval village nested on a rocky outcrop and surrounded by a network of cliffs, natural bridges and canyons.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

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

The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

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

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.