Cliff Villages

This medieval village clings to a cliff in southwestern France.

This seaside Italian village doesn't just look Escher-esque, it actually inspired the mind-bending artist.

These cliff-dwellings might be Mexico's least visited archaeological site.

This 40-room dwelling tucked within a cliff was built by the basin's prehistoric residents.

Every part of this unusual home is built into the sandstone rock.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

The Church of the Annunciation was carved into the face of a cliff, just like the rest of the town of Haute-Isle.

This religious complex carved into a cliff is steeped in legends of miraculous stags and the Holy Grail.

Cliffside houses provide a spectacular view from their perch above the valley.

Naturally protected city carved from a rock face.

A Spanish town built into the cliffs.

These homes carved into the mountains seem to defy the laws of nature.