It may not be the final resting place of a literal giant, but the Giant’s Grave is still archaeologically important.

Though this large circular site is now named for the legendary king, its history dates back to the Neolithic era.

A memorial overlooking a busy roadway is linked with the story of a 17th-century noblewoman’s legal battle for her inheritance.

Stocking up on the world's best beer requires a pilgrimage to a monastery drive-through.

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

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

Rows of multicolored bathing huts paint the sand dunes with pops of color.

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

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

An impressive Neolithic henge with banks nearly 10 feet high.

Legends say this red sandstone monolith and the dozens of smaller boulders that surround it were once a coven of witches—before a Scottish wizard turned them all to stone.

A series of idealized caves carved to entertain guests.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

This bell stars in a tragic love tale and is said to make wishes come true.

Special benches that play Chopin's music are scattered throughout his native city.

The giant statue and its model solar system honor the native Pole who declared that the Earth revolves around the Sun.

The Polish capital has had a deep connection to its guardian mermaid for almost a millennium now.

A tribute to the Polish insurgents who fought in the failed attempt to end their city's Nazi occupation.

For patriotic Russians, this memorial honoring the Soviet soldiers who died liberating Berlin in 1945 is the most sacred location outside of Russia.

A memorial in the Tiergarten is a reminder of the suffering inflicted on homosexuals by the Nazi regime.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.