Grotte du Mas-d’Azil – Stone Age drive-through

The Grotte du Mas-d'Azil isn't just a simple tourist attraction, but a rock monster that has been swallowing everything for millennia: people, rivers, cars. Yes, you read that right – a road runs right through the cave, and the Arize River burbles right next to it as if it were the most normal thing in the world.

The first permanent residents weren't campers, but Magdalenian people around 15,000 years ago. They left behind bones, tools, jewelry—and proof that "AirBnB in a cave" was already a reality in the Stone Age. Later, the Huguenots hid here, fleeing the Catholic clout.

Today, tourists stumble in, selfie sticks in hand, completely oblivious that they're trampling over ancient remains. A parking lot on Stone Age graves—cultural history in drive-thru mode.