The oldest bookstore in Iceland.

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

Three million year old fossils are exposed for all to see on this Icelandic shore.

A little-visited waterfall in an otherworldly landscape.

This modern monument to pagan belief looks like it was transported straight from ancient times.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

This Budapest bar allows drinkers to leave their mark on the walls, floor, and even ceiling.

The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.

Ruins of a German Castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

This neon lit Georgian cave claims to hold the boulder Prometheus was chained to.

Take respite inside this jaw-dropping church while climbing the volcano where Georgia's Prometheus was once chained.

The charmingly disheveled clock tower of Tbilisi's puppet theater.

Menacing or in memoriam, the Silent People and their meaning are left to interpretation.