Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

This unique structure allowed boats to bypass underwater mine barriers in the channel to enter the harbor.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

Nelson Mandela lived here with his family from 1946 until his arrest in 1962.

Despite many attempts to finish this overpass, it has been abandoned since the 1970s.

Two giant painted cooling towers make for one of the world’s most epic bungee jumps.

Formerly known as the Malay Quarter, Bo Kaap is a colorfully-painted suburb located in the “Mother City” of South Africa.

The Guardian of Tallinn.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

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

Stockholm's tiniest statue is of a small boy looking at the Moon.

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.

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

A cathedral resurrected from the ashes of one of Europe's greatest urban fires.

If you visit Santa's village, you can get your passport stamped to show you crossed into the Arctic Circle.

Roughly 17 million letters to Santa have found their way to this Arctic Circle post office.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

Hidden behind a wall, Spanish nuns distribute their signature sweets on a revolving tray.

Spain's unique Mosque-Cathedral has been a place of worship for both Muslims and Christians throughout its history.

The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.

The current seat of the Parliament of Andalusia was once the epicenter of the Great Plague of Seville.

His music once banned in Communist Cuba, John Lennon is now immortalized in bronze by Castro, who considers Lennon a "fellow dreamer."