San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

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

The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.

A medieval house adorned with enigmatic carvings, including one of a man displaying his masculine attributes.

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

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

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

This symbol of the French Revolution still stands where it was first planted during the 18th-century.

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

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

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

The Lone Star plaque hangs in a bombed-out bunker in Normandy to honor a Texan colonel's heroic actions on D-Day.

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

These unique markers designate the route American forces took during the Liberation of France.

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

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

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.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

It's just another skyscraper, but it's shaped like '90s cell phone.

An unusually designed bridge from the 1920s was built to withstand the tides and winds of Maine.

This store also houses a museum dedicated to the history of these small, historic community shops.

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.