Grand Est Abbey ruins of Montfaucon Around 620, a community of monks founded an abbey atop the hill of the French village of Montfaucon d'Argonne.
Spain Ghost town Jánovas In the 1960s, the inhabitants of the Spanish town of Jánovas were forced to leave their houses in order to build a reservoir and dam which were never actually built.
Belgian coast The forgotten Aviator's Chapel More than a hundred years ago, on May 12, 1917, the biplane of Count Paul de Goussencourt and Lieutenant de Cubber thundered from the sky during a firefight above Kaaskerke, a small town part of Diksmuide. Both died instantly.
Belgium Ruins of Villers Abbey In the valley of the River Thyle, a group of monks came together in 1146 to build the Villers Abbey.
France Ruins of the Abbey of Saint-Bertin After French revolutionaries chased the monks out of Saint-Bertin Abbey in 1791, demolition began.
Hauts-de-France The ruins of the Guémy Chapel Antoine de Bourgoine, a bastard son of Philip the Good, had the Gothic chapel of Guémy built on the French Mont Saint-Louis at the end of the 15th century.
Six blast furnaces you can visit today In the early nineteenth century, the industrial revolution swept across continental Europe and one steelworks after another rose from the ground. Europe had hundreds of blast furnaces, but since the mid-twentieth century, Europe's steel industry has been slowly going downhill.