Mosaics, storks, and brothels—this ancient city has it all.

An awe-inspiring mosque in Morocco with one of the tallest minarets in the world.

A recreation of the bar from the classic 1942 movie “Casablanca.”

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.

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.

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

A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.

The site where one of the most famous poems of World War I was composed is preserved to honor the legacy of the work.

In the shadow of a former battleground, the resting place for nearly 2,000 soldiers who died in World War I.

This memorial museum chronicles the apocalyptic destruction of the First World War.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

Three floors of musical instruments coming from all corners of the world and hundreds of years of musical history.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

The narrowest street in Canada was once a spot for dastardly doings, now a historic piece of Chinatown.

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

One of London's lost rivers runs through a pipe over the tracks of this subway station.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

London’s first road overpass is so old that it was originally built for horse-drawn carriages.