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Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

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

The Brutalist building harbors an unusual inverted dome that swoops down over its central sacred room.

A microbiologist-chef is slinging noodles with hyperlocal Nordic ingredients.

Thousands of miniature bronze sculptures have taken over this city square creating a unique art installation.

In downtown Oslo, a menacing and terrifying relief clings to a church wall.

Tens of thousands of tiny bottles stuffed with various items.

One of the world's few mounted blue whales, its jaws are hinged open allowing visitors to descend into a lounge.

A Gothic-inspired fish market is Gothenburg's best place to find loaves and fishes.

Opulence and fantasy collide in this royal chair which is supposedly made with unicorn horns.

A collection of noses tucked inside an art museum reveals how times have changed.

The art museum is decorated with creatively remodeled pre-Nazi swastikas.

This pair of gilded girls atop an Art Deco building in Copenhagen were built to function as a weather indicator.

Traditional Danish spot where the schnapps are flowing and the smørrebrød is loaded.

Berlin's old airport.

Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.

A statue of Vladimir Illyich Lenin guards this abandoned building in the "Forbidden City."

An officers prison camp believed to be impregnable by the Germans saw over 30 successful escapes.

One of the largest busts in the world celebrates the German city's erstwhile namesake.

The largest brick bridge in the world.

A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.

This extremely narrow tenement boasts a maximum occupancy of just two.

During World War II, the Nazis repurposed this beer cellar to store stolen artwork.

An ornate sculpture of an ox in repose marks the former entrance to Nuremberg's medieval meat market, which was destroyed during World War II.