Many historians today consider Sverre as Norway's greatest king of all time. 

Europe's only museum solely dedicated to the history of whaling still has a fully-functioning whaling ship.

An impressive museum dedicated to the resource that made the Scandinavian country rich.

World's strongest whirlpool.

The world's northernmost aquarium looks like it has fallen over.

At the very tippity-top of Europe is a cliff from which you can view the midnight sun.

A New Zealand communications tower stands as the tallest structure in the Southern Hemisphere.

The platform atop this verdant volcano was built with the help of a royal elephant.

This historic observatory contains the world's oldest refracting lens telescope.

Nine limestone rock stacks on Australia's "Shipwreck Coast."

A clear example of the process of erosion in action.

This previously dilapidated alleyway has been transformed into one of Melbourne's finest hidden art locations.

Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.

Only through deep darkness and tragedy did this elaborate royal palace become a sacred temple.

This Soviet-era athletic and recreation facility is the highest ice skating rink in the world.

This Soviet statue is based on a piece of propaganda that's been elevated to national myth.

In Kazakhstan, a colorful cathedral with many lives once survived the most powerful earthquake in the region.

The largest Lenin statue in Central Asia was moved to an empty field rather than being destroyed.

The Avenue of Mausolea is a series of grand palatial tombs.

Light still pours into the ruins of this ancient Islamic observatory.

This famed Silk Road oasis was one of the largest cities in the world before it was destroyed by a Mongol horde.

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

A dictator's gold statue once rotated to face the sun on a 75-meter high marble tower.

If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building.