A model memorial to the original Odin Tower, the second highest tower in Europe before it was sabotaged by Danish Nazis.

Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

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

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

Legend says this sculpture commemorates a brave baker who rescued the city in the Thirty Years' War.

According to legend a man pooped out the window of this tower to prove that it was straight.

The prison where Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf," and 278 Nazis were later executed for war crimes.

Hundreds of secret cabinets built into the walls of legendary poisoner's private work room.

An image of the legendary saint stands in the shadow of a cathedral she liberated.

Wander among free-roaming storks at the sanctuary that helped save them from local extinction.

Napoleon's childhood home is now open for people to explore the beginnings of France's short general.

For a brief time in 1960s France, families could climb into a tiny submarine and be pulled along an underwater journey.

A daring D-Day assault by U.S. Army Rangers is commemorated atop the high cliffs of this strategic point.

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

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

Peeing dogs guard the Roman hunting goddess atop a fountain at France’s Château de Fontainebleau.

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