An abandoned canal route lies hidden under the streets of Manchester.

The world's first military tank was designed in this English city amid the stalemate of WWI trench warfare.

An abandoned 18th century manse looks like something out of an Indiana Jones movie.

Modern commuters still pass through this 2,000-year-old Roman archway.

A student driver's nightmare.

The 16th-century church was kept in its ruined state as a reminder of the casualties of World War I.

These crumbling Nazi artillery bunkers are now fair game for massive graffiti projects.

The former home of a trailblazing surrealist is still filled with haunting dolls and grim paintings.

A Cold War command center is hidden under an idyllic countryside.

Because sometimes you need to make a batch of frites even when the stores are all closed.

A rare example of World War I trenches from the British front.

In an area where the remnants of WWI are discovered on a regular basis this preserved frontline trench may be the most amazing.

The site where one of the most famous poems of World War I was composed is preserved to honor the legacy of the work.

A taxus-tree to which Julius Caesar reputedly tied his horse.

The foundations of a forgotten fortress, wedged in between two streams.

Visitors to this Belgium graveyard are greeted by the grieving stone parents of the young men lost to war.

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.