A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A quaint medieval millhouse hovers surprisingly above the waters of the Seine.

Underneath a chalk hill in France lies what Hitler hoped would be the underground launching base for a devastating new weapon.

An underground city of ancient quarry tunnels hid thousands of Allied soldiers in WWI.

This tiny hotel perched atop a 50-foot tower really puts things into perspective.

A sanctuary for wolves in a community which once trembled in fear of the murderous "Beast of Gévaudan."

An often-shuddersome journey into a low-tech, robotic themepark.

For a brief time in 1960s France, families could climb into a tiny submarine and be pulled along an underwater journey.

A public park off the beaten path with a beautiful waterfall and 13th century Cistercian abbey.

A French library that makes sure its love of books is writ large... giant in fact.