A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

This hotel was once home to a steamliner company and became the final rest stop for Europeans heading to the New World.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

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

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

Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

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

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.

The former Nazi Germany concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.

St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.

One man's exploration of the human form, including the bizarre and delightful "Man Attacked by Babies."

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.

After a nearly successful attempt on Hitler's life, the conspirators met their fate in the courtyard of this Berlin building.

The site where a plot to assassinate Hitler was planned—and its conspirators were executed—is now a powerful memorial to the German resistance during World War II.