The world's first electric battery-powered submarine.

This modern district offers a stark contrast to Bordeaux's terrace-lined squares and waterfront façades.

This housing estate commissioned by a local sugar magnate was an early project by influential architect Le Corbusier.

Glasgow's oldest pub has a proud literary tradition and possibly a ghost or two.

The pub has been in operation since 1819 on the banks of the Clyde.

This neon sign is an homage to an Alfred Hitchcock film.

Maybe the only missile installed in a public park, this Cold War leftover was one of the first to carry a nuclear warhead.

Once an indicator of social class, the color blue has come to define this city on the edge of the Thar Desert.

These unique markers designate the route American forces took during the Liberation of France.

The experimental test tracks of a retro-futuristic monorail still stand in the French countryside.

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

This small red school was where Germany signed their surrender during WWII.

The haunting concrete remains of a Nazi pebble crusher can still be found in this small French commune.

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

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

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

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

The birthplace of the ferocious William the Conqueror, this castle is awash in medieval history.

A massive base for the Nazis' most formidable weapon in the Atlantic.

This submersible road connecting a French island to the mainland is lined with safety towers for when the tide strands travelers.

If they push on just the right spot, even the weakest person can move this titanic boulder.

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

Hundreds of prehistoric stones, arranged in perfect lines in a French field.

The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.