Come for the bread-themed puppet show, stay for the buffet.

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

A deer-headed statue that brings together a 12th-century legend and big wave surfing.

Picturesque intersection of witchcraft and ancient Christianity.

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

One Portuguese poet described this cape, the westernmost point in mainland Europe, as "where the land ends and the sea begins."

A unique seaside cave where Aleister Crowley faked his own death.

Step back in time at this 19th-century kiosk.

This unassuming chapel in Portugal plays host to a ghoulish collection of bones.

In the Monastery of São Vicente resides a gallery devoted to a breathtaking collection of seashells.

This Industrial Age architectural and engineering gem helps visitors and residents alike traverse Lisbon, “The City of Seven Hills.”

This 11th-century Greek monastery has renowned mosaics and relics of a brutal past.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

A novel collection of medical curiosities housed in an 18th-century surgeon training academy.

The gilded, masterful astronomical clock will calculate time, dates, and planetary positions for thousands of years to come.

A collection of noses tucked inside an art museum reveals how times have changed.

Long before ultrasounds and modern testing, medical specimens like these conjoined twins helped physicians learn about congenital anomalies.

A 200-year-old collection of medical paraphernalia in a historic house.

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

Stockholm's deepest subway station is also a stunning ecological wonder.

A man has revenged his true love's betrayal through tears and stone genitalia.

A 130-year-old urinal is the oldest of Stockholm and perhaps all of Sweden.

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

Beneath Denmark's Højbro bridge, a bronze merman and his seven sons forever mourn for the mother and wife who left them for land.