The somewhat misnamed 'Garden of Shells' lovingly built from found objects.

This prehistoric figurine is the oldest known realistic depiction of a human face.

This bunker in northern France was built by Nazi German forces with the intention of launching up to 50 V2 rockets at London each day.

A sandstone block marks the alleged spot where the legendary writer was conceived.

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

This former limestone quarry is now a subterranean wonderland of grand stonework.

The ruins stand as a somber reminder of France’s worst civil catastrophe of the 20th century.

This historic stone gate tower is now just a lonely relic in the middle of a swamp.

Immortalized by artists, this church incorporates a medieval lighthouse into its shoreside structure.

Buddha and Jesus tower over this French mountainside headquarters of the Aumism religious cult.

One of the last realized projects of an influential, self-taught, French Modernist architect Jacques Couëlle.

The castle where the Marquis de Sade lived out his darkest fantasies.

A gothic church dedicated to the love of wine.

Rows of multicolored bathing huts paint the sand dunes with pops of color.

A towering baroque basilica jutting out of the French countryside.

Shattered columns and Egyptian pyramids outside of Paris.

France's highest manned weather station is the only one still inhabited by meteorologists.

"Drunken ship" sculpture memorializing the French poet in the city where he died.

The first modern cemetery of Lyon is complete with more than 200 chapels and monuments.

This small commune with an even smaller name appears to have an unlikely amount of dead ancestors.

The Nobel-Prize-winning author of The Stranger is buried beneath a simple gravestone in a sleepy French village.

The man who introduced reinforced concrete to the world demonstrated its genius by using it to build his own house.

Balconies that have a most unusual accent.

Napoleon's childhood home is now open for people to explore the beginnings of France's short general.