An often-shuddersome journey into a low-tech, robotic themepark.

What if all public housing projects had been designed by "the Pygmalion of modern architecture," not only their prototype?

France's third-largest necropolis offers a peaceful respite from a busy port city.

This garden houses the remains of the ancient Greek port of Marseille.

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

A surprising relic of WWII, sitting boldly in a Marseille street.

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

Longest canal tunnel in the world, abandoned in the 1960s.

A crumbling island fortress that seems to be covered in a field of stone crosses but is simply incomplete.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

"Drunken ship" sculpture memorializing the French poet in the city where he died.

For a brief time in 1960s France, families could climb into a tiny submarine and be pulled along an underwater journey.

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

Artist Danielle Jacqui decorates nearly every inch of her home inside and out with her work.

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

This little train station is forever immortalized in film history.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

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

These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.