The current owner of the mansion behind this imposing gate in the Rivera town of Villefranche-sur-Mer is reportedly a Russian tycoon of some sort, but to many the house will always be the place where the Rolling Stones recorded much of their their critically acclaimed album "Exile on Main Street" in the early 1970s. The Stones decamped to this waterfront property in one of the most beautiful parts of France in 1971 seeking shelter from tax issues in the UK. It was initially rented by Keith Richards and his girlfriend Anita Pallenberg but soon played host to the whole band and an ever-changing cast of visitors (including John Lennon). By all accounts, it was a time of extreme, shall we say, indulgence. The band gave up the house in 1973 and the album was actually finished in a studio in Los Angeles. The property, known as "Nellcôte," is quiet and heavily fortified nowadays, hard to spot even from the water. But if those walls could talk...