Venice's island of the dead.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.

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

Site of one of World War I's most horrific scenes.

Bordered by forest on three sides and the ocean on the other, the Great Dune of Pilat is the highest sand dune in Europe.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

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.

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

A colossal sculptural lion built by the same man who designed the Statue of Liberty.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

This ancient Roman bridge and aqueduct still stands as a wonder of classical construction.

There has been an astronomical clock on this spot since the 14th century.

The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

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

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.