One thousand trees were planted in Norway to be used to print books a century from now.

This sawtooth mountain range still bears the strangely lovely marks of its history as a medieval quarry.

They say the internet is forever but just in case, the shiba inu behind an iconic meme has been immortalized in bronze.

According to Greek mythology, this natural spring is the home of a freshwater nymph.

The most magical part of this Latin American and Caribbean art museum is a room covered in beautiful blue tiles from floor to ceiling.

Legend holds that the Ancient Greek goddess of love once bathed in the waters of this grotto.

A confident and eccentric goat farmer boldly proclaimed his honor with an inscription on this woodland stone.

The taxidermied body of a bear that was a casualty of a drug trafficker’s bizarre death.

This restaurant sits within the walls of an 18th-century fortification that once defended the city’s old quarter.

On an idyllic island off the coast of Sierra Leone, remnants of the defense of the slave trade and its later abolition.

Venture into the past with an unlisted exhibit hall featuring extinct birds.

The largest collection of woven silk tapestries in the world.

The stones of this formerly witch-obsessed castle were used to build a church.

Crop circles inspired this whimsical garden in Germany.

A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.

Ample proof that watery ends make for well-preserved, millenia-old mummies.

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany.

Money made from smuggling sugar helped create this wondrous rock maze in honor of the Prussian Queen Louise.

Twisted trees shaped by coastal winds make this woodland look like something from a spooky story.

This enchanting mountain plateau celebrates spooky local folklore.

A strange rock formation with numerous legends trying to explain it.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

At one of Berlin’s oldest churches, visitors can place mosaic tiles to help restore a medieval mural.

Slaughterhouse Five opens its dank doors to fans of Kurt Vonnegut.