A neo-Gothic church built to thank God for saving the Emperor of Austria from an assassination.

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

A luxury hotel housed in a former 15th century Gothic church.

This centuries-old gothic monster has been converted into a sprawling, glossy bookstore.

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.

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.

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.

A quaint medieval millhouse hovers surprisingly above the waters of the Seine.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

A melancholy jester sits on the grave of a famous 20th-century ballet dancer and choreographer.

The remains of the medieval wall that once surrounded Paris with ties to the construction of the Louvre.

One of Jeff Koons’s largest sculptures and his first commemorative work.

A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.

A glamorous hotel that once accommodated French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors.

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

This mural painted by Keith Haring was done without payment as a gift to entertain the children at the Hôpital Necker.

This lesser-known Frank Gehry building houses a treasure trove of cinema history.