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

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

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

Deep in the Guatemalan jungle stands an ancient pyramid that once marked the reign of a king.

These roaring primates were considered a divine creature in the cosmology of the Maya.

This crumbling Art Deco movie palace in Mexico City has been abandoned for two decades.

These sacred Mesoamerican ruins feature peculiar petroglyphs hidden in the stones.

On this romantic tidal island reachable only at low tide the tomb of a famous French writer overlooks the sea.

Folklore and history carved into Brittany's coast.

In France, a medieval-style home pays homage to an intrepid explorer who discovered Québec.

A beautiful lighthouse with as many steps as days in the year, as many windows as weeks, and as many levels as months.

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.

The haunting concrete remains of a Nazi pebble crusher can still be found in this small French commune.

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

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

France's high-tech, future-themed amusement park.

The sunken structure looks like the victim of a catastrophic flood.

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

A small island that was once a key Axis fortification during World War II.

Ride the rails on a train harkening back to a 19th-century marvel.

The forgotten remnants of a land-to-sea cable car that was once unique in the world.