This church sits upon a peaceful hill and a long, turbulent history.

Experience architect Le Corbusier's modernist design for living in the home he designed for himself.

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

The castle was reconstructed to fit Kaiser Wilhelm II's romanticized vision of the Middle Ages.

The birthplace of the ferocious William the Conqueror, this castle is awash in medieval history.

Tens of thousands of ancient rock carvings hidden in the heart of a French national park.

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

Exquisite examples prehistoric bas-relief carvings.

To the famous surrealist artist, liberty required two torches held high.

Ivy-covered Medieval tunnels cut through this charming town in France's Loire Valley.

A chapel on a volcanic core, marking the end of a successful journey.

A mosaic-tiled house built by graveyard sweeper Raymond Isidore.

This is what trains will look like after the zombie apocalypse.

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

The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.

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

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

Hundreds of prehistoric stones, arranged in perfect lines in a French field.

This French castle is said to have once held the Holy Grail but is now a gorgeous mountaintop ruin.