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

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

Once a meeting point for great thinkers, and the midpoint of the country.

Long before ultrasounds and modern testing, medical specimens like these conjoined twins helped physicians learn about congenital anomalies.

A novel collection of medical curiosities housed in an 18th-century surgeon training academy.

Discovered in a peat bog, these horned helms come from a thousand years before the Viking Age.

Where a neoclassical sculptor rests at the heart of the museum devoted to him.

Angels, demons, and tortured souls on a giant wall mural in a little church.

This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.

An avant-garde artist is survived by his seaside garden.

Its walls are adorned with exquisite murals of the natural world, transforming it into an ecologist’s Sistine Chapel.

The Origin of On the Origin of Species.

Nearly 2 billion seeds from 38,000 species are stored and processed at this visitable facility in a quiet corner of England.

This WWII aircraft museum presents its wrecks like taxidermy, complete with recreations of the crash sites.

One of the oldest cathedrals in the U.K. houses a priceless early manuscript.

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

The "Jade Museum" is full of thousands of intricately carved works of art made from various precious stones.

This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

Giant novelty guitars now mark the spot where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil.

Steps from the site where Robert Johnson purportedly sold his soul to the Devil, you'll find this century-old barbecue joint.

Pay your respects at this juke joint founded by a blues legend of the Mississippi Delta.