This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

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.

An Orthodox church built by the Royal Family for the Russian community exiled to the French Riviera.

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

Trek into the depths of the cave where 17,000-year-old paintings exist alongside 400-year-old graffiti.

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

A centuries-old complex of hand-dug stone chambers has sheltered locals in times of trouble.

This ancient theater was once the home of fierce gladiatorial battles.

This medieval tower is all that remains of the castle where Joan of Arc was held before being burned at the stake.

Museum in a swimming pool where the water still flows.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

This stunning French estate was so lavish that it landed its original owner in jail for the rest of his life.

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

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

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.

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.