Deliberately hidden for centuries, the magnificent Saadian Tombs were eventually uncovered in 1917.

One of the two original gateways into the Kasbah, this gateway is a nesting site for storks.

It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.

Single runway interrupted by a busy road that cuts across its middle.

There was a top secret plan during World War II to seal a group of soldiers inside the rock.

Red, white, and blue painted steps along with a Union Jack celebrate the outcome of Gibraltar's 1967 referendum.

A beautiful lighthouse with as many steps as days in the year, as many windows as weeks, and as many levels as months.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

These unique markers designate the route American forces took during the Liberation of France.

An effigy of a trapped paratrooper dangles from a Normandy church to commemorate one remarkable D-Day event.

The Lone Star plaque hangs in a bombed-out bunker in Normandy to honor a Texan colonel's heroic actions on D-Day.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

This historic toy museum brings a little whimsy to a city not usually remembered for such things.

An ornate sculpture of an ox in repose marks the former entrance to Nuremberg's medieval meat market, which was destroyed during World War II.

The final resting place of one of Germany's most accomplished Renaissance men.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.