This church sits upon a peaceful hill and a long, turbulent history.

Peeing dogs guard the Roman hunting goddess atop a fountain at France’s Château de Fontainebleau.

The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

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

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

One of the great treasures of Neolithic art lies within this carefully constructed pile of rocks.

Hundreds of prehistoric stones, arranged in perfect lines in a French field.

The largest stone moved during the Stone Age once stood proudly in France.

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

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

A daring D-Day assault by U.S. Army Rangers is commemorated atop the high cliffs of this strategic point.

Two ancient yew trees with a chapel and an altar built inside their hollow trunks.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

No one knows exactly how deep the world’s deepest geothermal hot spring is.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

A 19th-century cabin built into a hollowed-out Sequoia tree.

Thousands of turbines whir at the origin of North American wind power.

Thousands of glyphs created by an unknown culture decorate the rock formations of this canyon.

The second-largest giant sequoia in the world.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

These memorials built by an eccentric bachelor on the side of Interstate 5 cause both wonder and traffic accidents.