The grandest stage for the world's foremost masters of invisible instruments.

This restaurant combines two Finnish traditions in one place: warm-weather relaxation and outdoor carpet-cleaning.

The last permanent exhibit dedicated to the Soviet leader.

One of London's lost rivers runs through a pipe over the tracks of this subway station.

When this monument to Slovenia's national poet was erected, it's said to have sparked the ire of nearby church authorities.

This small, easily-overlooked sculpture recalls the first time Graz saw a live elephant.

Hang with reindeer at this 400-year-old Sámi market.

A museum of Czech puppetry and wine in an allegedly haunted 14th-century stone house.

The wilderness of northern Sweden is full of shelters to protect people from sounding rockets returning from space.

These coffin-like Brutalist balconies were inspired by a nearby mine.

The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.

Few remain of these distinctive old trees that once served as natural landmarks for travelers on the road.

The world’s largest knitted mitten is displayed in one of Sweden’s smallest Arctic villages.

A little-known sculpture park of contemporary environmental art in a Lapland forest.

A Swedish town came up with an out-of-the-box way to eliminate the bloodthirsty insects.

The ruins of a fifth-century church dedicated to Our Lady of the Harbor.

Legend holds that St. Paul was flogged for preaching Christianity at this pillar.

There are thousands of tributes and memorials to the King, but none quite like this one in a Kraków city park.

In this Romani neighborhood lies a museum dedicated to the culture and history of the Roma.

With a history stretching back to the 16th century, this pub has a few stories to tell.

Life-sized bronze statues of fictional puppet characters.

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

A series of modernist treehouse hotel rooms grace the outskirts of an Arctic forest.

These two 15th-century metal rods allowed people to check if they were swindled or not.