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

This medieval tower is all that remains of the castle where Joan of Arc was held before being burned at the stake.

The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.

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

The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

Two small chapels housed inside an ancient tree.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

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.

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

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

Feed it cash, get your very own gold bar.

A faithful reproduction of Al-Jazari's enormous water clock.

What might look like a cliffside sacrificial altar at first glance is actually a stone compass pointing to cities and lighthouses all around the world.

Hundreds of mossy stones engraved with bits of philosophy, literature and random musings.

A Chinese meditation center in the middle of rural Sweden, partly funded by a member of ABBA.

A Swedish farm is the world's only producer of the rare, creamy delicacy that is moose cheese.

The original home of the Lego has a huge amusement park dedicated to the iconic plastic toy.

Beneath Denmark's Højbro bridge, a bronze merman and his seven sons forever mourn for the mother and wife who left them for land.

This sublime architectural marvel is a rare example of an expressionist church.