Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

This futuristic observatory at the top of the Pyrénées offers unrivaled views.

These crumbling Nazi artillery bunkers are now fair game for massive graffiti projects.

The sunken structure looks like the victim of a catastrophic flood.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

If they push on just the right spot, even the weakest person can move this titanic boulder.

The deserted pirate-themed restaurant still entices explorers.

This medieval tower is all that remains of the castle where Joan of Arc was held before being burned at the stake.

The post-apocalyptic remnants of a bucolic town ruined by a plane crash.

A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.

A bike train runs along a disused railway line through the tranquil French countryside.

An abandoned beach resort in Normandy reclaimed by artists.

A chapel on a volcanic core, marking the end of a successful journey.

The world's tallest bridge is also possibly the most elegant.

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

This is what trains will look like after the zombie apocalypse.

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.

This ancient Roman bridge and aqueduct still stands as a wonder of classical construction.

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.

This stunning French estate was so lavish that it landed its original owner in jail for the rest of his life.

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.