Outside a Viking museum sits a modern-day runestone made by a Swedish runemaster using traditional methods.

The scars of a remarkably organized public protest to save 13 elm trees are still visible in this Stockholm park.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

This medieval Estonian tower provides access to a series of tunnels that have been home to soldiers, punks, and fine art.

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

This dizzying tower was built to better broadcast the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

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

This Soviet-era "closed town" was a top secret uranium producer often left off of maps.

Across the Pacific in a raft, a museum dedicated to Thor Heyerdahl's now legendary expedition.

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

A secret, rocky playground hidden amongst the plain white beaches of the Florida coast.

The mouldering manses of wealthy colonials still pock the streets of a Curaçao neighborhood.

This tiny tropical village was sick of anonymity so the locals made this sign, which actually changed the name of the town.

An elaborate shrine dedicated to the four corners of the world unfortunately misses its mark.

Home of the "true" equator.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

This was once the center of the Birdman cult, and is now a World Heritage Site.

The world's most remote airport.

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

This popular tourist cave was ignored for almost 200 years before being mined into an attraction.

Commercial airplanes land mere feet over the heads of sunbathing beachgoers on this tiny island.

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.