An abandoned village where the ruined foundations cling to a cliff.

A collection of short standing stones covers this hillside.

Designed to allow funerals to proceed over the River Dulnain.

A 4000-year-old stone circle, comfortably surrounded by a modern Scottish neighbourhood and the local fire station

These ruins witnessed the final gathering of the failed Jacobite Rebellion.

A cross marks the spot in a small Scottish village that claims to be the exact center of the country.

These formal gardens were designed to be admired from the vantage point of the castle.

Two minuscule windows are tucked inside this medieval building.

The longest and tallest aqueduct in Britain can actually be sailed across.

In 1977, an eccentric book lover formed a micronation for book lovers.

The only medieval bridge in Britain with its defensive tower still in tact.

The world's largest boar is a huge steel titan found at a French rest stop.

A visionary precursor to the Internet made of index cards.

Petting this mysterious iron monkey supposedly brings good luck.

A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.

An underground city of ancient quarry tunnels hid thousands of Allied soldiers in WWI.

The largest Commonwealth memorial to the missing and dead of the Battle of the Somme.

A haunting museum chronicling the bloodiest battlefield of World War I.

A sublime medieval path adorns the marble floor of one of the most beautiful Gothic cathedrals in France.

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

A dad joke was inevitable when a member of this 19th-century chocolatier family married the president of France.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

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

A French museum of wrought iron.