Tours, France
Musee du Compagnonnage
This museum preserves over-the-top masterpieces that once qualified artisans for membership into a medieval guild.
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Tours, France
This museum preserves over-the-top masterpieces that once qualified artisans for membership into a medieval guild.
Amboise, France
The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.
Blois, France
A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.
Provins, France
An atmospheric, medieval-themed book store hides in a 13th-century underground space.
Chartres, France
The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.
Chartres, France
The largest crypt ever constructed in France was built in the 11th century on an ancient Druid sacred site.
Chartres, France
A mosaic-tiled house built by graveyard sweeper Raymond Isidore.
Dives-sur-Mer, France
Personal garden filled with mosaics made of recycled garbage.
Saint-Evroult-Notre-Dame-du-Bois, France
This 1,400-year-old abbey was once a powerhouse for music and intellectualism known across Normandy.
Falaise, France
The birthplace of the ferocious William the Conqueror, this castle is awash in medieval history.
Angoville-au-Plain, France
Bloodstains can still be seen in this medieval church where two medics saved lives on D-Day.
Sainte-Mère-Église, France
An effigy of a trapped paratrooper dangles from a Normandy church to commemorate one remarkable D-Day event.
Gouville-sur-Mer, France
Rows of multicolored bathing huts paint the sand dunes with pops of color.
Gatteville-le-Phare, France
A beautiful lighthouse with as many steps as days in the year, as many windows as weeks, and as many levels as months.
Les Sables-d'Olonne, France
Wall after wall of this French seaside neighborhood is intricately decorated with seashells and corals.
Rothwell, England
Under a church hides a forgotten 13th-century ossuary containing the remains of around 2,500 people.
Mistley, England
This ancient oak tree sheltered accused "witches" in the 17th century.
Rushton, England
An intriguing three-sided folly is a testament to one man's devotion to Catholicism and the number three.
Oxford, England
The medieval legend behind this holy well was one of the inspirations behind "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland."
Cornhill-on-Tweed, England
A father's love for his son has weathered the test of time in this whimsical garden of outsider art.
Holy Island of Lindisfarne, England
Twice a day this ancient path disappears with the tides, leaving the Holy Island of Lindisfarne out to sea.
Chillingham, England
This 13th century castle is chock full of ghosts and impossibly rare cows.
Bodnant Hall, Wales
A breathtaking flower tunnel bursts with beautiful golden blossoms.
Ruthin, Wales
This abandoned asylum in Wales might look haunted, but it's still beautiful.