Saint-Georges-d'Oléron, France
Fort Boyard
Fighting the British and making game shows for over 150 years.
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Saint-Georges-d'Oléron, France
Fighting the British and making game shows for over 150 years.
Bayeux, France
This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.
Nice, France
An Orthodox church built by the Royal Family for the Russian community exiled to the French Riviera.
Carnac, France
Hundreds of prehistoric stones, arranged in perfect lines in a French field.
Southwell, England
In the U.K., a historic workhouse shines a light on the early, harsh treatment of the poor.
Bordeaux, France
The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.
Bristol, England
A plaque claims this artwork outside a children's hospital was used in the 1998 Quidditch World Cup.
Nantes, France
Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.
Tring, England
The incredible private taxidermy collection of an eccentric zoologist.
Whitby, England
The recreated ruins of a house designed to memorialize a World War I shelling on the town.
Whipsnade, England
This unusual geoglyph was built as a warning so low-flying aircraft wouldn't scare the zoo animals.
Hemel Hempstead, England
A giant roundabout made up of six smaller roundabouts can befuddle the uninitiated.
Montignac, France
Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."
Waddesdon, England
The luxurious English estate houses the world’s largest private collection of French Rothschild wines.
Bristol, England
17th-century merchants in Bristol nailed their deals by placing money on these pedestals.
Tring, England
A menagerie of curiously bred creatures.
Paris, France
An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.
Waddesdon, England
An ornate aviary built during the Victorian trend of collecting exotic birds.
Mont Saint-Michel, France
This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.
Vancouver, British Columbia
An effigy of Vancouver's Gastown neighorhood's namesake.
Blackpool, England
A typographic tribute to the many comedic greats who make Great Britain laugh.
Stansted, England
This reconstructed Norman castle is the world's most accurate, from location to livestock.
Improvement District No. 9, Alberta
Though many were skeptical at first, these animal-specific routes across the Trans-Canada Highway have been a major conservation success.
Gibraltar
Single runway interrupted by a busy road that cuts across its middle.