A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

A medieval bridge stretches over a sulfur-rich river that leads to year-round natural hot springs.

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.

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

The ruins of a monastery where Saint Bridget of Sweden had her revelations recorded.

This encrypted monolith protected a secret of Norse mythology by hiding in a church wall for over a millennium.

This giant crucifix is like U2's Joshua Tree for Swedish death metal fans.

An enormous playhouse designed to look like 21 stacked Lego bricks, with another 25 million colorful Legos inside.

Bored potato-guarding Nazis etched their thoughts onto a brick storage building in Copenhagen's Meatpacking District.

The final resting place of one of the brightest physicists of the 20th century.

The final resting place of the author who gave us the Little Mermaid, the Ugly Duckling, and many more beloved fairy tales.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

After this historic church was destroyed by World War II bombing, its blackened shell was left standing as a monument.

In the northernmost city in the world, it's illegal to be buried because it’s too cold for bodies to decompose.

At the very tippity-top of Europe is a cliff from which you can view the midnight sun.

The convergence of two currents makes this a surprisingly pleasant getaway in the Arctic Circle.

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

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.