One of the largest ochre quarries in the world, hidden in a limestone landscape.

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

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

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

If they push on just the right spot, even the weakest person can move this titanic boulder.

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

A tiled, multi-level garden of survival in Lyon.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

This ancient Roman bridge and aqueduct still stands as a wonder of classical construction.

This stunning natural double arch, the largest in the Alps, went undiscovered until 2005.

A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.

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

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

A small museum in the Bay of Pigs gives the Cuban perspective on the famously failed U.S. invasion.

An old slave lookout in Cuba's historic sugar cane fields.

Castro's communist ice cream mothership has been serving five-scoop "salads" for over 50 years.

Cuba's historical trains remind natives of their country's sugary sweet past.

His music once banned in Communist Cuba, John Lennon is now immortalized in bronze by Castro, who considers Lennon a "fellow dreamer."

Neo-cave art on the macro scale.

A bronze sculpture of Lenin’s likeness outside Havana surrounded by 12 human figures in solidarity with the Bolshevik Revolution.

The house that birthed The Old Man and The Sea is now a museum devoted to the old man who wrote it.