Places wintermuteway Wants to Go

Hundreds of secret cabinets built into the walls of legendary poisoner's private work room.

A public park off the beaten path with a beautiful waterfall and 13th century Cistercian abbey.

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

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

These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.

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

Beautiful carved tunnels.

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

The fantastic architectural models of a French traveler.

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

Ghosts of France's colonial past.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

The mental institution where Van Gogh created some of his most famous work now allows guests to walk in the artist's footsteps.

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

Two small chapels housed inside an ancient tree.

A Gothic cathedral created from volcanic rocks.

This natural French spring has been turned into a magical grotto by Roman and medieval constructions.

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

The largest underground church in Europe.

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

A 14th century bridge built as a fortress, where the devil lurks on one of its towers.