Eat a Nobel banquet from any year in the basement of Stockholm's City Hall.

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

According to legend, this boat-shaped henge is built over the grave of a mythic king.

A unique seaside cave where Aleister Crowley faked his own death.

Deep vertical fissures like miniature slot canyons cut across the cemented volcanic rock of Black Point above Mono Lake.

A catapult rock from Gotland’s 13th-century civil war is still lodged in Scandinavia's best-preserved medieval city wall.

This declassified Cold War bunker hosts a large collection of Swedish aircraft.

Thanks to a spelling mistake this bizarre beaver-tiger hybrid became the symbol of a Siberian town.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

A solemn memorial in a majestic setting that honors a 1692 tragedy.

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

After sunset the heart of Zanzibar's historic Stone Town neighborhood transforms into a culinary playground.

Freddie Mercury's childhood home is now a monument to the iconic Queen rockstar.

A monument to the two U.S. officers killed by North Korean troops while trying to trim a poplar tree.

The site of many tense prisoner exchanges across the Military Demarcation Line between North and South Korea.

A large visitor's complex and place of remembrance on the outskirts of the DMZ.

Secret North Korean passage discovered below the world's most dangerous border.

South Korea's largely symbolic, barely used gateway to the North.

One of the oldest Black communities in western North Carolina and one of the largest Black Mennonite congregations in the country.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

This massive Trojan ursine was built to be a new tourist symbol for a small Swedish town.

Trek up this glacier before it disappears.

Unfortunately, you can no longer spend a night in this single-person treetop hotel.

This patch of land is home to Sweden's largest burial mound, allegedly belonging to a mythical king.