The experimental test tracks of a retro-futuristic monorail still stand in the French countryside.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

Abandoned blockhouses from Nazi Germany's Atlantic Wall erode into the sea on a French beach.

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

Fighting the British and making game shows for over 150 years.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

A site outside Pedraza, Spain where a plaque tells a tale of seven-legged creatures that were said to have once lived in the area—in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.

This amended headstone marks the grave of a participant in one of the most successful military deceptions of all time.

Stuck in the middle of a modern Madrid city block are the remains of a 19th century sports complex.

A site where “the ravages of the war are more striking…than any other place in contemporary Spain.”

Moorish signal station on a stratgic rocky outcrop.

This awesome Spanish castle is so fantastical it was actually used on Game of Thrones.

An architect transformed this abandoned cement factory into his castle-like workshop.

This massive chapel in the middle of the Indonesian forest is both haunting and fowl.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

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

The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.

A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.

The stone labyrinth in this New Orleans city park was laid to symbolize healing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.