This oddly shaped building is a surprising Soviet-era crematorium.

An Art Nouveau building covered in animal gargoyles and grotesques.

This unassuming museum's slogan translates to “there is a limit of sadness, anxiety has no limits."

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

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

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

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

These crumbling Nazi artillery bunkers are now fair game for massive graffiti projects.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.

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

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

Statue of a decomposing prince that once held his heart in its hand.

The site where one of the most famous poems of World War I was composed is preserved to honor the legacy of the work.

A rare example of World War I trenches from the British front.

In an area where the remnants of WWI are discovered on a regular basis this preserved frontline trench may be the most amazing.

A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.

The Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques is one of the oldest pet cemeteries in the world.

The post-apocalyptic remnants of a bucolic town ruined by a plane crash.

Underneath a chalk hill in France lies what Hitler hoped would be the underground launching base for a devastating new weapon.

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

The room where Vincent van Gogh died.

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