The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

The Lone Star plaque hangs in a bombed-out bunker in Normandy to honor a Texan colonel's heroic actions on D-Day.

Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.

A medieval church with largest and oldest collection of Renaissance frescoes in France.

Take black faced bears with giant clubs, white faced barbers wielding axes, hunters armed with shotguns, and mix in a lot of drinking.

An isolated 17th-century chapel on a remarkable site once dedicated to Celtic sun worship.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

Typewriter museum housing more than 1,500 machines preserves the history of the grandfather of computers.

A bronze bust commemorates the heroism of the secret agents who led covert operations against the Nazis.

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

Ride the rails on a train harkening back to a 19th-century marvel.

Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

The telescope that discovered Neptune.

German and American troops joined forces to defend this fortress during the strangest battle of World War II.

Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.

The immortal Hollywood star rests in peace in an unassuming Swiss village cemetery.

The university library shaped like a giant piece of Swiss cheese.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

A Swiss board game museum housed inside a picture-perfect castle.

Home to the "Rat King" of Nantes and other wonders of the natural world.