Bits of architecture from a town destroyed in World War I now decorate this hotel garden.

Statue of a decomposing prince that once held his heart in its hand.

This crumbling, graffiti-covered mansion sits tantalizingly within reach of the proletariat who frequent a public park.

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

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

An abandoned beach resort in Normandy reclaimed by artists.

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

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

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

An art world insider finds himself battling for his artistic home.

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

Since ancient times these picturesque springs have been providing bathers with healing waters.

A tiled, multi-level garden of survival in Lyon.

There has been an astronomical clock on this spot since the 14th century.

Hundreds of dwarf beeches create an unusual, haunting forest in the north of France.

Hundreds of prehistoric stones, arranged in perfect lines in a French field.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

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

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

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

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

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