The largest prehistoric ruins south of the Sahara, once a powerful center of international trade.

Local legend has it that the first humans were created in the pools here, leaving their footprints behind in the rock.

A unique zoological park home to over 30 species of wild cats, both big and small.

Exquisite examples prehistoric bas-relief carvings.

This 1,400-year-old abbey was once a powerhouse for music and intellectualism known across Normandy.

15,000 year old bison sculptures.

An unsettling shrine dedicated to the ravenous beast that prowled 18th-century France.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

For over 300 years this little carving has been the city’s good luck charm.

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

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

Natural mummies hidden in the crypt of a medieval French church.

This 14th century wine cellar is home to the oldest barrel-stored wine in the world.

Despite centuries of architectural innovation, this French castle is being built like it's the 13th century.

Trek into the depths of the cave where 17,000-year-old paintings exist alongside 400-year-old graffiti.

The remains of 40,000 humans, meticulously stacked in a tiny churchyard shed.

An isolated 17th-century chapel on a remarkable site once dedicated to Celtic sun worship.

Ivy-covered Medieval tunnels cut through this charming town in France's Loire Valley.

A medieval military street hidden beneath a charming French fishing village.

A well-preserved medieval village nested on a rocky outcrop and surrounded by a network of cliffs, natural bridges and canyons.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.