Twisted girders are all that remain of an Icelandic bridge that was wiped out by a combination of volcanic heat and glacial floods.

Cairns built to bring travelers good luck stretch across the land like miniature stone mountains.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.

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

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

This homeless brass fox tugs at your heartstrings from the foot of a Stockholm bridge.

Berlin's old airport.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

The design of this beautifully crafted building was inspired by Norwegian glaciers.

This Swedish automobile graveyard is a beautiful gallery of decay, but woe be to any who would steal a souvenir.

Tens of thousands of tiny bottles stuffed with various items.

It's clear this abandoned Art Deco gem was no ordinary cleaners.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

The embalmed remains of the communist leader lie within a custom crystal coffin.

This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."

This wooded grove of beautiful hand-built stone grottos is a hidden gem within a shuttered Franciscan monastery.

After four years of grasshopper plagues, this chapel was erected as a plea to God to make them end.

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

One of the world's tallest statues is also one of its most hated.

Where layer cakes tower above one’s head and there is never a shortage of icing.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.