Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

The only remaining vespasienne in Paris is a (stinky) relic of Resistance.

One of the oldest and largest wooden churches in France was very evidently constructed by shipbuilders.

A monument to the thousands of Canadian soldiers who died capturing the French ridge during World War I.

The largest crypt ever constructed in France was built in the 11th century on an ancient Druid sacred site.

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

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

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

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

Birthplace of the "Cat in the Cradle" and a cluster of iconic, original windmills that let the Dutch tame the seas.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.

A tiny village church in dramatic surroundings.

Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.

The first transatlantic wireless signal was received at this 17th-century fort.

A World War II gun battery sits at the easternmost point of North America.

Newfoundland's last remaining granite lighthouse.

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

Launched by Napoleon's soldiers more than 200 years ago, a cannonball remains embedded in the tower wall.

A sculpture of a beloved local figure, who tipped his top hat to everyone he passed on the streets of Bratislava.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.