Reykjavik, Iceland
Icelandic Phallological Museum
An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.
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Reykjavik, Iceland
An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.
Grindavík, Iceland
Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant
Iceland
Rising from the sea like a stone monster.
Hólmavík, Iceland
Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.
Veszprém, Hungary
The abandoned military base looks like a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Budapest, Hungary
A statue in Budapest's Liberty Square honors the former U.S. president's efforts to end the Cold War.
Sárospatak, Hungary
An industrial site turned into Hungary's most cherished natural wonder.
Budapest, Hungary
Late at night, the bust of the "Dracula" actor was snuck onto the facade of this Budapest castle.
Budapest, Hungary
Sitting beneath an unremarkable residential building is a museum devoted to classic Pinball.
Budapest, Hungary
Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.
Budapest, Hungary
From Austrians to Nazis to Soviets, this historic Budapest fortress has a history as complex as the city itself.
Budapest, Hungary
This off-beat, quirky communism-themed bar isn't afraid to poke fun at its history.
Thule, Greenland
Neither bomb blasts nor heartbeats escape the giant ears of this super sci-fi Arctic outpost.
Narsarsuaq, Greenland
An experimental forest at the foreground of arboreal science is also the canary in the coal mine for climate change.
Greenland
A Cold War atomic camp buried under the ice is now emerging because of global warming.
Lakki, Greece
This Greek cinema was architecturally inspired by Mussolini's vision of a fascist Mediterranean utopia.
Athens, Greece
A sharp sculpture made of thousands of pieces of jagged glass.
Mikonos, Greece
Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.
Delos, Greece
Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.
Leipzig, Germany
One of the most iconic neon ads of former East Germany.
Garching bei München, Germany
Four-story slides send people whizzing through the math department at this Munich university.
Kehl, Germany
First museum dedicated to the research and history of Epilepsy.
Kassel, Germany
A two-inch thick solid brass rod that extends an astounding one kilometer straight into the earth.
Waidhofen, Germany
A small concrete monument remembers a German cold case involving incest, farm tools, and psychics.