This Dalecarlian horse is about the size of a pinhead.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

Inside this Icelandic greenhouse, geothermal energy keeps tomatoes warm and growing.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

This verdant, tree-lined Reykjavik graveyard is both enchanting and eerie.

This grisly exhibit houses skeletons and weapons from a devastating 14th-century clash.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

As if T-rex wasn't big enough, this Canadian monument is four times larger than the real thing.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

Sample cuisine inspired by the Great Plains indigenous people who have been gathering at this sacred Canadian Heritage Park for 6,000 years.

These colorful French islands spent a stint bootlegging booze during American Prohibition.

A World War II gun battery sits at the easternmost point of North America.

The first transatlantic wireless signal was received at this 17th-century fort.

Canada's largest dinosaur skeleton was hidden away in storage for more than 40 years.

A unique subway station where pillars evoke ancient civilizations.

One of the largest underground systems runs under Canada's largest urban center.

A collection of more than 12,000 shoes, displayed in a building shaped like a shoebox.

The metal truss bridge served as the sole entry point to an "isolation island" for smallpox outbreaks throughout the 1870s and early 1940s.

Dedicated to the writer who immortalized the use of the poppy as a symbol of remembrance of those who died in wars.

This illuminated sign was the first of its kind in Canada and remains a vestige of the Atomic Age.

These locks on North America’s oldest canal are named after a porcine rock formation.