A 220-foot deep watery drop-off, filled with marine life.

This island hill is strewn with boulders carved by shipwreck victims from the age of sail.

A black cottonwood gets a second life as a home for books.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

This 1,500-acre development hopes to be the Central Park of the South.

The permanent home of a 1960s traveling museum of tiny historical dioramas.

Orr Park's dead trees have been carved into a menagerie of whimsical visages.

What better place to take a seat?

The highest point in Alabama was almost completely deforested, but is now home to protected towers and trees.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

This stunning French estate was so lavish that it landed its original owner in jail for the rest of his life.

France's Lilliputian park displays over 100 of the country's monuments for visitor perusal.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

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

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

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

The birthplace of the ferocious William the Conqueror, this castle is awash in medieval history.