Military in France

A medieval military street hidden beneath a charming French fishing village.

Abandoned blockhouses from Nazi Germany's Atlantic Wall erode into the sea on a French beach.

The 16th-century church was kept in its ruined state as a reminder of the casualties of World War I.

This statue honors the thousands of Allied avians that served and died for France during World War I.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

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

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

An isolated 17th-century chapel on a remarkable site once dedicated to Celtic sun worship.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

Bloodstains can still be seen in this medieval church where two medics saved lives on D-Day.

A Christian retreat founded to welcome refugees fleeing from the Nazis during World War II.

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

A unique museum tells the story of the day-to-day life of World War I soldiers.

A massive base for the Nazis' most formidable weapon in the Atlantic.

The Lone Star plaque hangs in a bombed-out bunker in Normandy to honor a Texan colonel's heroic actions on D-Day.

A centuries-old complex of hand-dug stone chambers has sheltered locals in times of trouble.