Couëron, France
House in the Loire
The sunken structure looks like the victim of a catastrophic flood.
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Couëron, France
The sunken structure looks like the victim of a catastrophic flood.
Paris, France
The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.
Fontenay-en-Parisis, France
The post-apocalyptic remnants of a bucolic town ruined by a plane crash.
Fleury-devant-Douaumont, France
A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.
Amiens, France
The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.
Bailleau-Armenonville, France
A bike train runs along a disused railway line through the tranquil French countryside.
Paris, France
A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.
Creissels, France
The world's tallest bridge is also possibly the most elegant.
Auvers-sur-Oise, France
One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."
Valenciennes, France
This is what trains will look like after the zombie apocalypse.
Paris, France
This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.
Vers-Pont-du-Gard, France
This ancient Roman bridge and aqueduct still stands as a wonder of classical construction.
Pont-en-Royans, France
These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.
Lyon, France
Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.
Fleury-devant-Douaumont, France
This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.
Paris, France
Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.
Nantes, France
Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.
Maisons-Alfort, France
The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.
Clermont-Ferrand, France
A Gothic cathedral created from volcanic rocks.
Carcassonne, France
Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.
Paris, France
A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.
Saint-Ouen, France
Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.
Marseille, France
This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.
Paris, France
Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.