Connecticut's shot tower is near the end of its life.

Outside a Viking museum sits a modern-day runestone made by a Swedish runemaster using traditional methods.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

The remnants of a 19th-century ironmaking complex hidden in the woods of Connecticut.

A magnificent waterfall nestled in the heart of the El Yunque National Forest.

Legend tells how a Spanish soldier disappeared from this isolated sentry box without a trace.

This statue dedicated to the story of a Flemish boy and his dog was relatively obscure in Belgium, but a cult sensation in Japan.

The bronzed skull of a beheaded traitor was affixed to the city gate in the 17th century.

Brussels' favorite peeing boy has a sister.

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

A humble air museum located in an original World War II aircraft factory.

It looks like a whale, it's part of Yale, and it's best-known by a nickname you can probably work out for yourself.

A castle inspired by medieval architecture is hidden in the woods of Connecticut.

This historic railway museum may have lost its passengers but not its love for trains.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

A man throwing a giant severed hand towers over Antwerp’s main square.

The legendary giant's severed hand sits on Antwerp's popular shopping street.

Rare wooden escalators lead deep down into an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.

Most prolific publishing house in the 1600s open to the public.

A fantastical 13th-century fortification sandwiched by a modern hotel in central Brussels.

A giant bug impaled on a 75-foot-tall needle.

The Belgian library displays burned books that were salvaged from the fires of both world wars.

This whimsical statue dumps water on its head to symbolize knowledge flowing into his brain. Or maybe booze.