This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

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

Fur-lined metal pod dangling in the French countryside.

A medieval church with largest and oldest collection of Renaissance frescoes in France.

A precariously balanced goose-shaped boulder with a dark legend.

A pastry shop specializing in Sephardic sweets serves historic recipes in Ribadavia’s Jewish quarter.

A unique underground structure dating back to the 1st century BC.

700 iron sculptures crammed into a Mediterranean park.

The ruins stand as a somber reminder of France’s worst civil catastrophe of the 20th century.

This mosque was based on Sub-Saharan Islamic architecture and created for the Senegalese Tirailleurs.

This little train station is forever immortalized in film history.

The lost Latin words were reconstructed using the holes from the nails that once pinned them in place.

This plaza is home to a number of works, including Montpellier‘s own Arc de Triomphe.

Half a century after it was abandoned, this ghost town is coming back to life.

This site honors an Israeli cargo ship that was destroyed by the government in 1948.

Located within one of Israel's most picturesque monasteries is also the country's first meteorological research station.

Every spring, locals see the shadowy figures of a ghost army of slain Greek soldiers descend upon this ruined fort.

1,500 Commonwealth servicemen of World War II are buried or commemorated in this cemetery.

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

This little Greek plateau is home to thousands of rustic, white-sailed windmills.

This abandoned Greek island was the last active leper colony in Europe.

The first transatlantic wireless signal was received at this 17th-century fort.

A World War II gun battery sits at the easternmost point of North America.

A rustic house where intellectuals and investors tried to put an end to Cold War nuclear armament.