A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

Home to the "Rat King" of Nantes and other wonders of the natural world.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

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

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

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

For over 300 years this little carving has been the city’s good luck charm.

This natural French spring has been turned into a magical grotto by Roman and medieval constructions.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

Bordered by forest on three sides and the ocean on the other, the Great Dune of Pilat is the highest sand dune in Europe.

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

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

This ancient Roman bridge and aqueduct still stands as a wonder of classical construction.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

One devoted couple has donated multiple recreations of Michelangelo's sculptures to this South Dakota town.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.