Natural cathedral designed by Italian artist Giuliano Mauri.

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

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

This Corsican Neolithic site is full of pre-Roman megalithic structures that may or may not be penises.

A medieval church with largest and oldest collection of Renaissance frescoes in France.

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

The world's most famous cheese caves.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

A memorial to Brazil's little-known role in World War II.

This deceiving white sand beach gets its brilliant hue from the chemical discharge of a nearby factory.

A sculpture serving as an homage to Pope John Paul II.