This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

This futuristic German television spire is actually the world's largest digital clock.

Wooden pathways run through this rocky landscape, which legend says was created when a dwarven king pulled down his own castle to stop raiding giants.

A medieval gate once used as a prison and how home to a city museum.

You would never come across this tiny green oasis if you didn't know it existed.

A pilgrimage site where people ask Saint Dymphna to watch over those who are not of sound mind.

The compass on its front was a handy tool for 17th-century merchants who needed to know the direction of the wind.

This collection of lurid religious statues tell the tales of a saint who stood down the devil.

A whimsical bridge uses saxophones to pay tribute to two great men and the European Union.

One of Belgium's oldest hospitals saw patients from the 13th to 20th centuries before becoming a museum.

A giant bug impaled on a 75-foot-tall needle.

This statue dedicated to the story of a Flemish boy and his dog was relatively obscure in Belgium, but a cult sensation in Japan.

Potato-peeling mannequins, Inca art, and a dangling tuber mobile help trace the history of fries at this Belgian museum.

Christ's blood allegedly preserved in a Belgian town.

A magical and peaceful ruined Cistercian abbey in what is now southern Belgium.

A gender-bending antihero's grave, where lies the inspiration for both book and film.

This German art chapel is perfect for those who like their worship hard, modern, and utterly alien.

The bronzed skull of a beheaded traitor was affixed to the city gate in the 17th century.

A beer pipeline runs beneath Bruges.

Walk or bike along a narrow strip of Belgium sandwiched by German territory.