A beautiful and moving memorial set on a little island in the middle of the river in Minsk.

Remains of the old fortification along the Western border of the USSR, now an elaborate defense museum.

A striking Soviet memorial commemorates the liberation of Belarus from the Nazis.

Peek into a cave of giant, glimmering crystals.

A road that winds through this natural cave is the only way to access the small, appropriately-named village of Cuevas.

In one of the smallest countries in the world stands an original Salvador Dalí sculpture.

The oldest continuously operating mint in the world that has been making coins since the 9th-century.

Today this former Nazi concentration camp stands as a poignant memorial to the victims of fascism, and a warning from history.

This massive sculptural work outside of Paris was four decades in the making—and it's still not quite complete.

Built in 1347, this belfry is one of the oldest in the world and survived intense bombing during World War I.

A massively oversized measuring tape sculpture sits inside a hidden yard.

The haunting cadaver tomb of a famous French poet, playwright, and filmmaker.

Former bridge turned into an observation tower.

This medieval chapel is now a shrine to the region's favorite sport.

Each of these hand-painted wooden boxes, which date to between the 16th and 19th centuries, contains a genuine human skull.

A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.

This bunker in northern France was built by Nazi German forces with the intention of launching up to 50 V2 rockets at London each day.

The huge golden reliquary of a testicle-smashing saint.

This little train station is forever immortalized in film history.

700 iron sculptures crammed into a Mediterranean park.

A functioning Roman-era aqueduct and bridge in rural southwest France.

This remarkable checkered church on a Corsican hilltop is fabled to have been built by angels.

The castle where the Marquis de Sade lived out his darkest fantasies.

The world's largest boar is a huge steel titan found at a French rest stop.