This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

If you look closely at the oldest bridge in Paris, you might notice hundreds of ugly faces leering from its sides.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

Europe's largest community of crocodiles and alligators.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

Bloodstains can still be seen in this medieval church where two medics saved lives on D-Day.

These unique markers designate the route American forces took during the Liberation of France.

An effigy of a trapped paratrooper dangles from a Normandy church to commemorate one remarkable D-Day event.

The Lone Star plaque hangs in a bombed-out bunker in Normandy to honor a Texan colonel's heroic actions on D-Day.

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.

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

This symbol of the French Revolution still stands where it was first planted during the 18th-century.

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

A tribute to Rhode Island's state bird, a domesticated chicken breed that dominated the 19th-century poultry industry.

Only a shrine remains at the site of the catastrophic nightclub inferno that killed 100 Great White fans.

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

A bronze statue of Mister Rogers in the neighborhood where he grew up.

The souvenir got the company’s founder out of a pretty pickle at the World’s Fair.

This shop filled with oddities and knick-knacks is named for a 19th-century charlatan.