Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

Marvel at the opulent Art Nouveau interior while dining on dirt-cheap French classics.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

This emotive sculpture was originally created for the 1878 World's Fair.

A daring D-Day assault by U.S. Army Rangers is commemorated atop the high cliffs of this strategic point.

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

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

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

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

His "Lionheart" is entombed separately from the rest of his body.

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

A French museum of wrought iron.

An ancient ossuary in Rouen.

Theme park featuring miniature replicas of European monuments.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

This Greek temple, open only an hour a day, was the site of a war of tastes between an architect and an artist.

Brussels' favorite peeing boy has a sister.

Cozy basement bar sports an inventory of over 2,000 beers.

In the shadow of a former battleground, the resting place for nearly 2,000 soldiers who died in World War I.