Battle of Waterloo

The Lion's Mound rising out of the wheat fields south of Brussels, Belgium, where Wellington and Blücher ended Napoleon's career on June 18, 1815. King William I of the Netherlands had the mound raised to mark the spot where his son, the Prince of Orange, is presumed to have been wounded in the battle, and it was finished in 1826. Climb its 226 steep steps and the battlefield opens up below you as farmland, which is the best way to read the low ridges the armies fought over.