Live-in sculpture begun by one family in 1979.

Before the electric telegraph, a chain of stone towers carried messages across France.

A monument to the thousands of Canadian soldiers who died capturing the French ridge during World War I.

At this monastery, monks make raw-milk cheese and use excess whey to create methane that powers their hot-water system.

This 5,000-year-old tomb once had its own hinged door.

This 12th century, partially destroyed, abbey has had several owners and was seized during the French Revolution.

This facility has manufactured stunning tapestries for France's royalty ever since the 17th century.

This stone quarry was used to make axes and other tools more than 6,000 years ago.

A medieval church built into an ancient cave.

The smallest port in France is named after the pirate who created it.

This abandoned church in central Lyon is missing its front stairs.

Abandoned outpost once home to a murderous tyrant.

A private garden of sculptural eccentricities.

A suspended footbridge allows for traversing this gorge carved through the French Alps.

The huge golden reliquary of a testicle-smashing saint.

A 13th century fortified house built to defend the Duchy of Burgundy.

A garden of massive sculptures sits in Jean Lindard's backyard.

This unusual piece of Renaissance art depicting the bodily horror of crucifixion and skin disease may have been inspired by fungus-induced hallucinations.

Inside this museum, Christians were imprisoned when the Romans controlled Gaul.

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

The little tuxedo cat survived the trip, then languished in obscurity.

700 iron sculptures crammed into a Mediterranean park.

This hidden workshop is filled with molds of France's most iconic sculptures.

The shape of this old salt factory complex was inspired by the course of the Sun.