Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

Outside a Viking museum sits a modern-day runestone made by a Swedish runemaster using traditional methods.

A man has revenged his true love's betrayal through tears and stone genitalia.

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.

Sweden's oldest animated sign is still lighting up the skyline today.

This gem from the industrial age helps visitors and residents alike traverse hilly Stockholm.

One of the world's first dedicated bank buildings in the world is now the oldest one.

A wooden street sign is the last remnant of this 400-year-old alleyway.

Stockholm's narrowest alley is barely over two feet wide.

A plaque marks the house in Stockholm where the French philosopher René Descartes lived up until his death.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

The narrowest street in Paris.

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.