One man's fascination with Turkey led to this backyard mini-city.

A spectacular Petrine Baroque summer palace commissioned for Catherine I by Peter the Great.

Only a fragment of this 15th-century Dance of Death survives today.

The trailblazing Swedish businesswoman created a beloved minty candy called polkagris.

Enigmatic bug-like sculptures mystify drivers along a Swedish highway.

This 2,000-year-old Doric bridge is still open to pedestrian traffic to this day.

Gutted during the Liverpool Blitz, this architectural husk has been left destroyed in honor of the dead.

A stunning architectural yet functional feat, towering over Oslo.

For six months of the year, three giant mirrors direct a pool of sunshine onto this otherwise occluded town.

The oldest surviving wooden bridge over Rhine lets travelers cross easily from Switzerland to Liechtensten.

Berlin's old airport.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

The oldest amusement park in the world has been providing a nice spot to have some fun since the 1500s.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

This luxury hotel suite is located deep in the bowels of an old mine.

This unique bridge is one of the last of its kind in Sweden.

A semi-sterile mutant birch that became Sweden's national tree.

This simple roadside art installation ended up sparking a folk art movement and a controversy of international proportions.

The largest of Denmark's seven mysterious round churches stands on an island in the Baltic Sea.

A tribute to the first human in space.