Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

On a wall in linear London, a plaque hangs at the high water mark of one of the worst floods in fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.

Long before ultrasounds and modern testing, medical specimens like these conjoined twins helped physicians learn about congenital anomalies.

The largest bottled beer collection in the world holds over 22,000 unique beer bottles.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Visitors are treated to a stained glass kaleidoscope interior inside this work of art.

A novel collection of medical curiosities housed in an 18th-century surgeon training academy.

Once a meeting point for great thinkers, and the midpoint of the country.

Site of the first radio and telephone broadcasting companies in Copenhagen.

The world's first combination ski slope and power plant.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

An old Danish political institution where members of government can grab a drink off the record.

Beneath Denmark's Højbro bridge, a bronze merman and his seven sons forever mourn for the mother and wife who left them for land.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

This pair of gilded girls atop an Art Deco building in Copenhagen were built to function as a weather indicator.

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

A plaque marks the spot where the saint was shoved off the Charles Bridge and into the river.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.