A real-life Professor Snape once taught in this Welsh university building, which students of course nicknamed “Hogwarts.”

Go deep down into the earth to experience the world of Welsh coal miners.

This Welsh village gave itself a ridiculous name in a publicity stunt a century ahead of its time.

The highest peak in Wales is said to be the final resting place of a giant killed by King Arthur.

The Stonehenge of Wales is one of the grandest neolithic dolmens still in existence.

A harem-inspired Moorish fantasy design in a Victorian-era Welsh castle.

A hermit's tiny cell built into the cliffside that saved him in South Pembrokeshire.

A miniature Italianate fantasy village on the coast of Wales and the set of ITC classic "The Prisoner."

A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.

Celebrate the end of the Great French Wine Blight with a festival of kissing.

A Parisian boutique devoted to la Sape, the elegant Congolese fashion subculture rooted in European colonization.

When the imprisoned pope's remains were finally returned to the Vatican, his heart stayed behind in France.

Trek up this glacier before it disappears.

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

Thousands of flamingos and other bird species flourish in these Camargue wetlands.

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

This Bordeaux parking garage has 712 indoor spaces, and one outdoor.

Balconies that have a most unusual accent.

This ancient theater was once the home of fierce gladiatorial battles.

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

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

César Baldaccini's iconic sculpture of a 40-foot thumb stands tall in La Défense.

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

Folklore and history carved into Brittany's coast.