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A French valley with forests so lush it was nicknamed "the Small Amazonia of the Pyrenees."

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

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

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The world's tallest boat lift stands as a massive piece of industrial tourism.

Rainbow arches made of shipping containers grace the entrance to one of France's largest seaports.

A rare wooden coffin set vertically into the Gothic arch of an ruined church.

The grand complex of buildings that comprise Liverpool's Exchange Flags includes a vast World War II bunker that has been frozen in time.

A floundering Polish shipyard was once the soul of the Solidarity movement that capsized communism.

The site of the first battle of World War II.

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.

Winner of the Leeds Award for Architecture and the Environment.

The bizarre headgear looks like it was made for a fool, not a king.

A stretch of land where the sour-sweet vegetable is cloaked in darkness and grows so fast you can hear it crack, squeak, and pop.

This memorial is dedicated to the hundreds of soldiers from Featherstone who died fighting World War I.

An iconic waterwheel in the Pennine Hills marks the location of one of Britain’s most profitable lead mines.

A museum in England’s Lake District dedicated to the trusty pencil wants you to know the story of their World War II spy pencils.

A 2,000-ton rock resting in a state of a delicate balance.

This industrial chimney looks rather out of place, isolated in the middle of an attractive woodland.

A museum dedicated to Wales’ favorite—and strangest-looking—watercraft.

A 19th-century funicular railway shuttles visitors up this surprising sea cliff to one of the world's largest camera obscuras.

This former Welsh metal factory is now a lovely abandoned relic but was once one of the industry's world leaders.

The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.