Learn to escape quicksand. It's off the coast of this French island. Test yours kills on the banks of Mont Saint Michel in Normandy, France. The island has some of the most extreme tides in the world.

NAGAHAMA, Shiga Prefecture--In the midst of an ongoing drought, a small island in Lake Biwako here has taken on the slight resemblance of France’s Mont Saint-Michel. The lake has been called ...

It was the year 708, and, as recorded later in the 9th century text “La Revelation,” St. Michael had ordered the bishop to build a chapel on Mont Tombe, a rocky island at the mouth of the Couesnon ...