Year after year, around 3.5 million people flock to a place that seems to have sprung from a fairy tale - yet is entirely real: Mont-Saint-Michel. The former Benedictine abbey in France's Normandy ...

They call it Mont-Saint-Michel-au-Peril-de-la-Mer, Saint Michael’s mountain at the peril of the sea—a pinnacled monastery at the mercy of some of the highest tides in the world. But Mont Saint-Michel ...

I love to scamper, at low tide, shoes in my hands, far from shore, across the mud flat in the vast Bay of Mont St. Michel. Splashing across black sand and through little puddles, I head for a dramatic ...

When Disney Imagineers were looking for a place to base the fictional land of Corona on in “Tangled,” they settled on the French monastery of Mont Saint-Michel. Designer Laurent Ben-Mimoun, who worked ...

When looking for inspiration for the city of Minas Tirith in the "The Lord of the Rings," Peter Jackson and his crew at WETA used Mont Saint-Michel. When looking for iconic locations for Assassin's ...

Ah, yes. It’s happening, slowly but surely. The underground group of Disney maniacs who have been plotting to turn the entire world into a three-dimensional Disney movie are finally starting to break ...

The Traveler: Rachel Dickinsen of Roseville. The scene: Mont-Saint-Michel, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, seems to float above water off the coast of Normandy on the northern coast of France. The ...

On the wide expanse of France's northern coast, a vast gothic and Romanesque basilica rises above a rocky island, its dark steeple piercing the summer sky. In the foreground, sheep graze stubbornly on ...

The Mont-Saint-Michel model is viewed by a visitor using Microsoft HoloLens. (Microsoft Photo) An immersive new exhibition at Seattle’s Museum of History & Industry is blending technology from the ...

Tourits queue to leave the site and reach the parking lots at Mont-Saint-Michel (Photo by Damien MEYER / AFP) Just before lunch at the height of the summer season, the narrow alleys of France's iconic ...

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Bay of Mont Saint-Michel in northern France. Lying between Brittany to the west and Normandy to the east, this remarkable bay, which is listed as a ...