A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

This sublime architectural marvel is a rare example of an expressionist church.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

A collection of collections ranging from dentistry to minerals.

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

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

One of the most breathtaking railways in Europe also takes one of the steepest climbs, from fjord to mountain plateau.

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

Stockholm's narrowest alley is barely over two feet wide.

The discovery of an old wall led to the creation of this fascinating museum about the city in the Middle Ages.

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.

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

A rare surviving Victorian greenhouse designed specifically to house giant water lilies.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

For some its just random patterns, but upon closer look they reveal things lost to history.

A hidden tunnel of bones in one of Malta's oldest churches.

Burial grounds for more than 1,000 bodies deep under the modern town of Rabat.

The floor of this spectacular Baroque sanctuary is covered in memento mori.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

This Stone Age solar temple aligns with the sun on each equinox and solstice.

This ancient Han dynasty-era tomb is Hong Kong's oldest known structure.