This statue celebrating everyday life in Dublin has a few unsavory nicknames.

The block of aged dairy is probably still edible after 2,300 years in a peat bog.

The 19th-century pharmacy (now a used bookstore) was featured in James Joyce’s "Ulysses," and has changed very little to this day.

A nun spent 16 years painting the stunning Celtic mural that covers the interior of this WWI memorial.

An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.

The final resting place of one of the brightest physicists of the 20th century.

A novel collection of medical curiosities housed in an 18th-century surgeon training academy.

Bored potato-guarding Nazis etched their thoughts onto a brick storage building in Copenhagen's Meatpacking District.

The largest bottled beer collection in the world holds over 22,000 unique beer bottles.

Beneath Denmark's Højbro bridge, a bronze merman and his seven sons forever mourn for the mother and wife who left them for land.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

This sublime architectural marvel is a rare example of an expressionist church.

This statue is dedicated to Grace Sherwood, the last person in Virginia to be convicted of being a witch.

A lightship turned museum, outfitted with artifacts from the vessel's past as part of the U.S. Lighthouse Service.

This tree is a living witness to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.

The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."