The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

This striking fort on the Maginot Line looks just as it did after being destroyed in the Fall of France.

An effigy of a trapped paratrooper dangles from a Normandy church to commemorate one remarkable D-Day event.

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

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

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.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

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

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

In the midst of a living monument to Soviet social engineering, Polish Catholics built this church by hand.

This sprawling concrete suburb of Kraków was designed by the Soviet Union as the model proletarian city.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

The remnants of an archaeological camp stand within Tikal National Park.

A devastated ruin in the south of Belize where British explorers claimed to unearth the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull.