Hundreds of signs pointing to the birthplaces of current Helsinki residents form stalactites on the ceiling of the cave-like Kamppi metro station.

This ten-ton fruit sculpture celebrates the Finland homeland.

Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.

This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.

These enormous, stern-faced statues greet visitors with lanterns, and sometimes costumes.

This pirate-broadcasting-tower-turned-restaurant played a rebellious role in the history of Dutch television.

The place where Czar Peter I of Russia resided in 1697 during his Grand Embassy.

Colorful and chaotic stacked hotel in North Holland.

This 1920s Amsterdam neighborhood was built as a giant experiment in concrete construction.

The only example of a Paris Métro sign in use at a subway station outside of the French capital. 

City law dictates that this mountaintop cathedral containing the heart of a saint is to remain the tallest building in town.

The world's biggest pet store.

This strange sculpture is an enigmatic icon of this medieval German town.

This cheeky statue of a man defecating gold coins graces the facade of a medieval guildhall.

A peculiar trapezoidal building covered with wonderful humorous reliefs.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

A staggering collection of satellite models and actual flight parts.

Home to the world’s oldest seismograph and a four-ton steel ball that makes its own earthquakes.

A modern museum dedicated to the fairytales and dictionary work of the Brothers Grimm.

The man who gave his name to magnetic measurement is buried in the city where he did his best work.

It commemorates one of the world's earliest telegraphs.

The Goose Girl of Göttingen, Germany might well be the most kissed girl in the world.

Renowned mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss once worked at this observatory.

A comedic homage to a beloved German actor.