Abandoned blockhouses from Nazi Germany's Atlantic Wall erode into the sea on a French beach.

Eccentric sculpture garden brings Basque mythology to life.

Bordered by forest on three sides and the ocean on the other, the Great Dune of Pilat is the highest sand dune in Europe.

A well-preserved medieval village nested on a rocky outcrop and surrounded by a network of cliffs, natural bridges and canyons.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

These bleak 800-year-old ruins were once the royal residence of choice for hunting in Sherwood Forest.

In England, an 18th-century water-powered workshop still stands.

Once the largest unsupported dome in the world, beating out the Pantheon and St Peters in Rome.

This king penguin is a knighted brigadier of the Norwegian Army.

Every birth, death, and marriage is recorded in these color-coded leather-bound books.

This Roman relic was discovered in Scotland by a mudlarking ferryman.

A former telephone box found new life as a photo booth and charity fundraiser.

The 20th-century chapel’s intricate woodwork includes amazing details, most notably angels playing bagpipes.

The world’s first museum dedicated to the history of childhood opened in Edinburgh in 1955.