Built for television, this statue now serves as an unlikely memorial to a fireman who died on 9/11.

After giving up Michelin glamour for his Amish faith, one chef now makes stellar sausages in a small, off-the-grid shop.

The largest hand-carved, outdoor sculpture collection in the state of Maine.

A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

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

Bloodstains can still be seen in this medieval church where two medics saved lives on D-Day.

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

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

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

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

The world's second largest salt mine, said to have been discovered by Alexander the Great's horse.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.