This recreated Roman outpost stands above its buried predecessor.

Charming small streets lined with well preserved wooden houses dating to the 18th and 19th century.

The hillside where Edvard Munch experienced the panic attack that inspired “The Scream” offers one of the most striking evening views in Oslo.

This record shop and unofficial black metal museum is an ode to Oslo's heaviest musical export.

The design of this beautifully crafted building was inspired by Norwegian glaciers.

This handsomely carved wooden church is more than 800 years old.

An unusual building on a "desolate hill" features the works of an Icelandic sculptor.

This boat represents the promise of undiscovered territory, a dream of hope, and progress and freedom for Iceland.

An ancient Roman relief beautifully preserved on the façade of a house.

The world's largest moose statue towers above the highway between Oslo and Trondheim.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.

These ominous lava formations were said to be an entrance to the netherworld so of course they inspired a famous metal band.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

This statue of the Virgin and Child is said to have miraculously changed its position during the 1692 earthquake.

A two-storey cabinet of wonders filled with the bizarre, the macabre, and the downright uncanny.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

See Malta’s history through the recreation of scenes of torture using life-sized mannequins in a former medieval dungeon.

So opulent and massive it was once dubbed a palace, this hotel's doors closed temporarily in 2007 and failed to reopen.

The floor of this spectacular Baroque sanctuary is covered in memento mori.

Have tea in a cemetery with a dazzling view of Istanbul.