Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

This amazing medieval fortress stands atop a promontory along the famous Cinque Terre.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

Museum celebrating the ocean, with the largest wunderkammer dedicated to sea exploration.

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

This saucy statue once caused outrage among locals.

100-windowed castle turned art gallery, built by one dedicated mason.

This French anatomy museum greets guests with a skinless man, mid-shovel.

This plaza is home to a number of works, including Montpellier‘s own Arc de Triomphe.

There is a strange little carving of a person seemingly crushed by a pillar behind the remains of St. Thomas Aquinas.

A very uncommon water tank standing in the middle of the grapevines in Bordeaux nearly a century after its construction.

Lady Liberty's original designer installed a little clone in this French fountain.

This Bordeaux parking garage has 712 indoor spaces, and one outdoor.

The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

Montmartre's sole surviving windmill became an iconic landmark for 19th-century painters, artists, and bohemians.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

For more than a century, revolutionary graffiti has marked the wall of a Parisian church.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.