Before this bridge was built people had to wait for the ferryman, an annoyance that, the story has it, gave the town its name.

The tomb of a hard traveling saint is constantly covered in shoes as offerings to heal disabled youth.

The people's champion of the French Revolution was so overcome by grief at his wife's death that he exhumed her in the dead of night to make one final replica of her face.

Celebrate the end of the Great French Wine Blight with a festival of kissing.

A private garden of sculptural eccentricities.

The site of the first medieval crusade that pitted Christians against Christians.

A miniature Corsican village built out of pebbles.

Huge Russian Orthodox cemetery in danger of being converted into open public space.

This army of concretions is an unexplained geological phenomenon unlike anything else in the world.

An unusual sand beach in the middle of a forest.

Before the electric telegraph, a chain of stone towers carried messages across France.

When the imprisoned pope's remains were finally returned to the Vatican, his heart stayed behind in France.

More than 140 granite sculptures decorate the lawn of this French sculptor.

Whether hero or rogue, his silver bullet is said to have taken down the murderous "Beast of Gevaudan."

A quarry cum sculpture park where the works of art are chiseled into the very walls.

This striking fort on the Maginot Line looks just as it did after being destroyed in the Fall of France.

This triumphal arch celebrating the Sun King's conquest of Lille is a masterpiece of military architecture.

These ruins reveal the remarkably intact layout of a Roman marketplace.

A beautiful lighthouse with as many steps as days in the year, as many windows as weeks, and as many levels as months.

Live-in sculpture begun by one family in 1979.

This hidden workshop is filled with molds of France's most iconic sculptures.

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

This remarkable checkered church on a Corsican hilltop is fabled to have been built by angels.

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.