The hillside where Edvard Munch experienced the panic attack that inspired “The Scream” offers one of the most striking evening views in Oslo.

This 65,000-ton glacial boulder stands as a striking natural monument.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

This boat represents the promise of undiscovered territory, a dream of hope, and progress and freedom for Iceland.

A remote Arctic museum focusing on the science of icebergs and the archaeology of an ancient Inuit settlement which lies just outside its doors.

Hitler's bleak vision of relaxation still stands as a mostly abandoned 10,000-room resort complex.

The NASA scientists behind Apollo 11 started out developing Nazi weapons at this abandoned German rocket factory.

This power plant is at the edge of a Czech mountain.

This renaissance château was home to an infamous witch hunter who sent a hundred suspected witches to their deaths.

Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.

A peculiar clock commemorates a historic victory won by ringing the noonday bell an hour early.

A mesmerizing landscape of 18th-century cellars carved out of the land.

Each year melting snow turns these Austrian hiking trails into scuba zones.

It has an American Dream Car exhibit, Europe's largest Formula One collection, and many, many mannequins.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

The largest brick bridge in the world.

A rebuilt Roman city that was once the largest Roman settlement in the region.

A centuries old castle atop a dormant volcano houses museums devoted to both women and witches.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

This beautiful, historic church looks like something out of a simpler past.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.

This fantastical waterfall is hidden in a cave located in a cracked cliff.

This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.