Every year, the town of Menton, France, turns lemons and oranges into giant sculptures depicting windmills, dragons, and more.

A miniature diorama that recounts the brilliant stories of author and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol.

A winery built on the site of a Gallo-Roman estate uses historical tools to recreate ancient vintages.

This museum preserves over-the-top masterpieces that once qualified artisans for membership into a medieval guild.

A place to see how French aristocrats lived in the early 1900s.

Now a memorial, this factory was once used as a concentration camp for artists by the Vichy government.

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

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

This medieval tower is all that remains of the castle where Joan of Arc was held before being burned at the stake.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

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

This stunning French estate was so lavish that it landed its original owner in jail for the rest of his life.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

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

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

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

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

This cathedral hides a sculpted dog that determines your fate and an unexploded shell from World War II.