One of the world's largest ice festivals dazzles visitors for over a month with radiant sculptures and carvings.

The highest peak in Wales is said to be the final resting place of a giant killed by King Arthur.

Iconic red and white plaques show the creative names invented to navigate the city streets.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

It is still illegal to "quarrel" at this unlikely urban oasis built on top of an electrical substation.

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

The colonial city's social history is reflected in its fanciful door knockers.

A tribute to the Polish insurgents who fought in the failed attempt to end their city's Nazi occupation.

This sprawling concrete suburb of Kraków was designed by the Soviet Union as the model proletarian city.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

This ancient Roman bridge and aqueduct still stands as a wonder of classical construction.

Thousands of flamingos and other bird species flourish in these Camargue wetlands.

Swedish skyscraper with a 90° twist.

Nordic giants resurrected from the sea and restored to their former greatness.

This chimerical bridge/tunnel appears to dead end right into the sea.

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

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.

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

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

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

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.