A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A giant gorilla made of used car tires used to sit sentinel over a Helsinki college campus.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

This church also serves as a lighthouse complete with a beacon.

This former hospital was once one of the oldest mental health facilities in Europe.

These enormous, stern-faced statues greet visitors with lanterns, and sometimes costumes.

In the waters outside Helsinki, a tiny island once used as a military outpost now welcomes visitors.

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

A cathedral resurrected from the ashes of one of Europe's greatest urban fires.

These Finnish rapids have been attracting tourists for over a hundred years and are now released with the push of a button.

Pigduck of Turku.

Finland's oldest astronomical observatory once played a crucial role in seafaring and timekeeping.

If you visit Santa's village, you can get your passport stamped to show you crossed into the Arctic Circle.

Roughly 17 million letters to Santa have found their way to this Arctic Circle post office.

A small island dotted with old, historic Finnish buildings.