Roughly 17 million letters to Santa have found their way to this Arctic Circle post office.

If you visit Santa's village, you can get your passport stamped to show you crossed into the Arctic Circle.

Finland's northernmost zoo is home to the country's only polar bears.

A cathedral resurrected from the ashes of one of Europe's greatest urban fires.

Atop this electronic store resides a massive fighter jet.

This church also serves as a lighthouse complete with a beacon.

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

The tiny, studious rodents greet visitors to the National Archives of Finland.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.

This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

A triumphant marble and bronze fountain depicting a 15th-century Hungarian king and his hunting party.

This easily overlooked memorial immortalizes the scars from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

A highly-criticized monument in Budapest has become the site of a makeshift Holocaust memorial.

A diminutive statue that was inspired by the sculptor's own daughter.

The metal leaves on this tree are engraved with the names of Holocaust victims.

The true meaning behind this sculpture remains unknown.

A statue in Budapest's Liberty Square honors the former U.S. president's efforts to end the Cold War.

Legions of Roman soldiers bathed in this ancient spa complex under a Budapest transit station.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

Estonia's largest creative city is a vibrant bohemian hub located within a former industrial complex.

A unique sculpture calls the outside of this steakhouse home.