A stone monument acknowledging Scotland's right to have a separate Parliament from the one in Westminster.

A never-finished memorial to the heroes of the Napoleonic War has become "Scotland's Folly."

This obscure walkway links Edinburgh’s Old Town with one of the city's prime vantage points.

This otherwise ordinary close on the Royal Mile constituted the end of the world for Edinburgh’s poorest residents.

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

A haunting contrast of trains that both saved and took the lives of Jewish children in Nazi Germany.

An empty bookshelf commemorates the books which were lost during the infamous event

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

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

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

Denmark’s oldest bakery is home to the 'Wednesday Snail,' one of the best cinnamon rolls on the planet.

This sculptural representation of an Andersen fairy tale had to be pushed away for being too grim.

One of Scandinavia's largest mosaics pays tribute to Danish art and science luminaries.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

The Swiss artist's bulbous and overgrown shape-shifting sculpture controversially graces the center of Bern.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

The bears of Bern have been a city highlight for over 500 years.

A constellation of golden cobblestones shows the names of local children born under a full moon.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

A massively oversized measuring tape sculpture sits inside a hidden yard.

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.