France

Coulumbiers forest, in Lusignan, is inhabited by fairies. The most famous fairy of this forest is Melusine, cursed by her mother, the fairy Pressina, to become a serpent from feet to waist once a week. She would never fall in love until she found a man who agreed never to see her on that day. And this man was Count Raymond of Poitiers, who met Melusine in Coulombiers forest while she was dancing with other fairies. They got married, settled down in Lusignan, and got ten children who were born deformed.

Brittany's ancient stones said to be erected by giants, haunted by fairies

A huge "menhir," or prehistoric stone, lies broken in four pieces at Locmariaquer, near France's Gulf of Morbihan.

Carnac, France - The rows of ancient standing stones stretch more than 900 metres amid the rolling countryside of southern Brittany.

Jutting out of the ground in a variety of bizarre shapes - some look like whale heads covered with moss and lichen, others like abstract sculptures carved by the wind and rain over the millennia - the nearly 1,100 stones form an extraordinary panorama.