This mountain trail inspired Nietzsche to complete his magnum opus.

A monument to the thousands of Canadian soldiers who died capturing the French ridge during World War I.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

The huge golden reliquary of a testicle-smashing saint.

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

700 iron sculptures crammed into a Mediterranean park.

This prehistoric figurine is the oldest known realistic depiction of a human face.

Immortalized by artists, this church incorporates a medieval lighthouse into its shoreside structure.

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

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

Sculpture of a legendary French dragon.

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

Visitors dating back to the 1600s carved their marks in the stones of the iconic tower.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

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

This church sits upon a peaceful hill and a long, turbulent history.

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

One of the most powerful religious centers in the Middle Ages, dubbed the founder of Western monasticism.

An atmospheric, medieval-themed book store hides in a 13th-century underground space.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

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

A neighborhood church's unusual abstract stained glass was the final project of avant-garde artist Jean Cocteau.