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

This oddly named town refuses to change its phallic moniker.

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

During the summer months, giant teddy bears take over Paris near Les Gobelins metro station.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

The narrowest street in Paris.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

A monument stands at one of the starting lines of the Trans-Canada Highway, formerly the longest uninterrupted highway in the world.

A graceful natural rock formation stands astride the point where the Gulf of California meets the Pacific Ocean.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

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

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

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

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

A daring D-Day assault by U.S. Army Rangers is commemorated atop the high cliffs of this strategic point.

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

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

The room where Vincent van Gogh died.

Guests can stay at a hotel in the former French abbey where lie the tombs of King Henry II and King Richard the Lionheart.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.