Reykjavik, Iceland
Harpa
This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.
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Reykjavik, Iceland
This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.
Reykjavik, Iceland
This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.
Iceland
This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.
Reykjavik, Iceland
An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.
Iceland
This elegant arc of a waterfall marks a religious turning point.
Reykjavik, Iceland
One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.
Iceland
The unique waterfall in Iceland's south features a backdrop of geometric black lava columns.
Grindavík, Iceland
Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant
Kyoto, Japan
The 10,000 Torii shrine.
Kyoto, Japan
This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.
Kyoto, Japan
The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.
Tokyo, Japan
Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.
Wieliczka, Poland
An underground city of salt.
Krakow, Poland
A memorial to the beloved brown bear that served in the Polish army during World War II.
Krakow, Poland
St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.
Krakow, Poland
This man-made mound monument was built out of soil from all across the Polish empire.
Ljubljana, Slovenia
A relic from the Industrial Revolution got a second life as a contemporary performing arts space.
Ljubljana, Slovenia
A trough of 700 strange bronze faces runs through a narrow alley in Ljubljana's old town.
Bled, Slovenia
This one-time health resort was used by aristocrats around the world.
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.
Ljubljana, Slovenia
This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat.
Ljubljana, Slovenia
A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.
Budapest, Hungary
This off-beat, quirky communism-themed bar isn't afraid to poke fun at its history.
Budapest, Hungary
This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.