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

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

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

A serpentine highway twists and turns over the treacherous Norwegian Sea.

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

The grounds and buildings of an old wood pulp mill have been transformed into an innovative art park and museum.

Housing the famous Norwegian ice-defying 19th century polar exploration ship.

Across the Pacific in a raft, a museum dedicated to Thor Heyerdahl's now legendary expedition.

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

One man's exploration of the human form, including the bizarre and delightful "Man Attacked by Babies."

A striking public sculpture representing the period of martial law in Communist Poland.

In the center of Wrocław's old meat market stands a somber tribute to the city's livestock.

The silly symbol for an underground protest group is now scattered around the city.

This oddly beautiful water cistern is a techno-temple to the wet stuff and a multimedia masterpiece.

Relive a Polish uprising via an enormous, century-old cyclorama.

A locomotive made from 185,000 bricks celebrates the town's pioneering railway history.

These 20-foot jaw bones honor a time when the leviathan bones were a sign that whalers survived the hunt.

A monument to the real explorer and bear who inspired characters in Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials.'

A strange egg in a mucky bog of western Ireland marks the spot of an aviation milestone.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

This singular Irish dolmen is more Frank Lloyd Wright than upright stonehenge.

The world's only flying boat museum honors a small Irish village that sent 20th-century aviation to new heights.

Just a few miles off the western coast of Ireland lies an isle steeped in Irish literary history.