France

1. France

4. Carnac, in Brittany, France, 2 miles of standing stones from the Neolithic, 4,500 BC!

5. St. Michel’s Mount

11. French Empire, 1919-1939

12. Does Immigration Mean ‘France is over?’ NY Times, 1/5/14 PARIS — It is difficult to go more than a day in France without hearing someone express the conviction that the greatest problem in the country is its ethnic minorities, that the presence of immigrants compromises the identity of France itself. This conviction is typically expressed without any acknowledgment of the country’s historical responsibility as a colonial power for the presence of former colonial subjects in metropolitan France, nor with any willingness to recognize that France will be ethnically diverse from here on out, and that it’s the responsibility of the French as much as of the immigrants to make this work… Read more at link above

13. 36.4 % of all immigrants to France in 2004 from North & West Africa

17. Millau Span over the Tarn River, France’s Central Massif

19. Napoleon’s Arc de Triomphe

20. La Defense, from the Arc de Triomphe down the Champs Elysees

21. Tres Grande Vitesse, the TGV

26. Cote d’Azur

27. Cassis, France

29. Bruges, Belgium

30. Netherlands

31. Polder dikesby the Zuider ZeeZZ Causeway

34. Zuider Zee and the Noordoostpolder

35. Noordoostpolder, 2005

40. Rotterdam