This statue of a falling man commemorates a teenage martyr of the Hungarian Revolution.

There's a mini version of Iguazu Falls hidden in the Balkans, and it's got a rope swing.

This abandoned airplane hanger is said to have once been a top secret launch facility.

A former bank seized as a sniper vantage point during the Bosnian War is now a secret graffiti art gallery.

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

A bridge destroyed three times: once as a ruse, then in an actual attack, and finally for the movies.

A restaurant devoted to "trouser grip" wrestling, an ancient form of Viking wrestling that is Iceland's national sport.

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

Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.

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 tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

A bit of the Berlin Wall was gifted to the Icelandic capital to commemorate the 25th anniversary of German reunification.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.

Remnants of the 16th-century defensive wall still stand unassumingly within Edinburgh.