Site of the most famous cave paintings, mentioned in "What Art" - Stephanie Bolster writes, “I’ve never been to Lascaux, the French site known for the world’s most famous cave paintings. Nor, were I to go, would I be able to visit those paintings, which are, for the sake of their protection, inaccessible to the public. Were I to go, I would have to content myself with visiting replicas a few hundred metres from the originals.
But even in their inaccessibility, the original paintings have been subject to significant deterioration since their discovery. Which just goes to show that, in the most basic way, looking changes things.”