The largest Commonwealth memorial to the missing and dead of the Battle of the Somme.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

Montmartre's sole surviving windmill became an iconic landmark for 19th-century painters, artists, and bohemians.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

This 400-year-old tree is actually an immigrant from North America.

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

The site where two doves fell in love.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

This 19th-century stone bridge in Mayenne was renamed after an American soldier who died defusing explosives placed under it, saving it from destruction during the town’s liberation in August 1944.

Lego blocks now patch Rouen's WWII scars.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

Home to the "Rat King" of Nantes and other wonders of the natural world.

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

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

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

The body of at least one victim of a construction accident was left behind in the collapsed pylon, buried under tons of concrete.

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

The opulent home that inspired Tintin's Marlinspike Hall and the adventures within.

A monument to the “other Joan” who bravely defended the town of Beauvais with an axe in hand.

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.