(Photo: Getty Images)Pyrenees National Park, France
Closest major city: Lourdes (20 miles)
The nearby town of Lourdes draws thousands of pilgrims each year, but the Pyrenees National Park attracts people seeking a different sort of healing. The park’s dramatic landscape of jagged peaks and verdant valleys is home to more than 70 species of animals, including bears and Pyrenean chamois, but the most common sounds are those of the sheep being tended by shepherds in the designated farming areas that dot the region.
