The charming village of Autoire has warm stone houses, with wooden frames and steep, dark-red roofs, clustered together on the side of a wide, tree-filled gorge.

The perfect place for waterfall enthusiasts is the river Herisson and its 31 cascades. From single high drops to flowing crescents, all the waterfalls vary in shape and size and all are in picturesque settings.

The extraordinary, rock landscape of Col d'Izoard and the surreal Casse Déserte could almost be from another world. The sheer slopes of grey stones drop deep into the valleys, broken by dozens of jagged monoliths poking skywards from the smooth surfaces.

Stretching for over 5 miles along the North coast of Brittany is a unique area full of pink, granite boulders and rocks, worn into unusual shapes by 300 million years of erosion.

The compact, old centre of Dijon offers many interesting photographic subjects within walking distance of each other, with a mix of medieval and Renaissance architecture, brightly coloured roofs, detailed, stone decorations and unusual church facades.

Sand dunes can found in many places along the coastlines of Europe, and are often a favourite subject for photographers, but at 100 metres high, 500 metres wide, and 3 kilometres long the Dune du Pilat simply tops them all.