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It may not be the final resting place of a literal giant, but the Giant’s Grave is still archaeologically important.

A memorial overlooking a busy roadway is linked with the story of a 17th-century noblewoman’s legal battle for her inheritance.

Twice a day this ancient path disappears with the tides, leaving the Holy Island of Lindisfarne out to sea.

This giant wooden treehouse within a sprawling garden has its own eatery.

A tiny chapel perched along a 14th-century bridge.

Though much of the castle was robbed of its stones, the underlying earthworks are among the best-preserved in England.

A quaint medieval millhouse hovers surprisingly above the waters of the Seine.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

The Church of the Annunciation was carved into the face of a cliff, just like the rest of the town of Haute-Isle.

This massive sculptural work outside of Paris was four decades in the making—and it's still not quite complete.

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

The room where Vincent van Gogh died.

The walls of this tiny Italian church are entirely covered with frescoes.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

Florence’s archaeological museum displays an ordinary stool that once shattered one of its most prized artifacts.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

Art and armour fill every inch of this rich kid's Italian villa.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

Many famous English poets including Elizabeth Barrett Browning are laid to rest at this Swiss-owned cemetery in Florence.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.

Some say this medieval church is where the poet Dante married his wife and also met the love of his life.

A medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.