The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

Hundreds of secret cabinets built into the walls of legendary poisoner's private work room.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

Lyon's "Wall of the Silk Weavers" is one of the largest murals in Europe.

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

Sky ships, planes, and portraits left as unique tokens of hope and thankfulness.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

An image of the legendary saint stands in the shadow of a cathedral she liberated.

This medieval tower is all that remains of the castle where Joan of Arc was held before being burned at the stake.

His "Lionheart" is entombed separately from the rest of his body.

An ancient ossuary in Rouen.

The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.

The severed head of a 17th-century Irish martyr lies within an intricate golden shrine.

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

This ancient Irish tower could easily have stood in for Rapunzel's prison.

The oldest inn in Kilkenny was established by the first convicted witch in Ireland.

The enchanting archway is the only surviving portal into Dublin's lost medieval wall.

This ancient Irish religious site is covered in ancient carvings, many of which have barely aged.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.