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

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

The opulent home that inspired Tintin's Marlinspike Hall and the adventures within.

Perfume museum and library.

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.

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

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

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

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

One of the most popular megalithic sites in Ireland stands as a humbler version of Stonehenge.

Traveling this mountain pass reveals quaint stone buildings, stunning Irish scenery, and a bridge said to grant wishes.

This tablet indicates where the tragic monarch returned to begin her tumultuous downfall.

This mundane post marks the old location of the city's main postal hub.

A medieval device used to punish and shame wrongdoers still hangs outside the village church.

This was once a hall in which a 16th-century royal banquet was hosted by King James VI of Scotland.

Nestled among the living residents is the final resting place of an apothecary plague victim.

This extraordinary Viking artifact has traveled throughout the city.

A six-ton wedding present for the King of the Scots.

Sprawled across the Great Hall ceiling are various constellations and images relating to the zodiac.

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

A succession of eerily contemplative iron figures lead from a Scottish museum to the sea.

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

The 16th-century church has the only stained glass windows that survived the Scottish Reformation intact.