This genuine, blood red Jolly Roger was captured off the North African coast in 1790 by Admiral Richard Curry.

A seemingly cursed public sculpture commemorating a local athletics hero has finally found a home, but traces of the original can still be found in the rose bushes

Atop this iconic central Brighton monument sits an inaccurate but innovative time keeping device

The oldest statue in the Netherlands has survived relocation, bombardment, and burial.

The oldest skyscraper of Europe now stands dwarfed by the surrounding structures.

Rotterdammers' dirty minds gave this Santa a dirty nickname and cursed it to a life of wandering.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

Elegant marble and old vaults fill this historic Dutch bank turned office space.

Old ships and machinery fill a historic harbor in the city that's home to Europe's largest port.

Carved scenes of sex work and unglamorous labour beneath a cultural hero.

This red light district plaza memorializes the Fab Four and their historic connection to the area.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

An ancient ossuary in Rouen.

His "Lionheart" is entombed separately from the rest of his body.

Lego blocks now patch Rouen's WWII scars.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

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

This place bears witness to the loss of many lives during WWII, and stands in stark contrast to the American Cemetery.

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

The control tower at the historic weapons range is now available as a highly unusual vacation rental.

Legend has it the famous Robin Hood would attend mass at this 12th-century Cistercian abbey in Sherwood Forrest.

This building is a recreation of the gatehouse that separated Los Alamos from the outside world during the era of the Manhattan Project.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.