This pair of gilded girls atop an Art Deco building in Copenhagen were built to function as a weather indicator.

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

The largest of Denmark's seven mysterious round churches stands on an island in the Baltic Sea.

One of the most well-preserved temples of ancient Egypt.

This fascinating museum in an old water tower holds the world's largest collection of Vodou artifacts from western and central Africa.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

The remains of the oldest bone-headed dinosaur in North America.

This massive, ancient stone was disassembled and then put back together again.

The Victorian-era greenhouse is stuffed with tropical plants, and open 365 days a year.

This whimsical fountain pays tribute to Toronto's four-legged friends.

A fantastic place to see murals, and an important location in the history of Toronto's legal street art scene.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

A memorial to the tens of thousands of Irish who fled to North America during the Great Famine.

This urban oasis is a marvelous meld of music and landscape architecture.

With well over 130 falls and cascades to brag about, Hamilton, Ontario has earned its stripes as the waterfall capital of the world.

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

The mental institution where Van Gogh created some of his most famous work now allows guests to walk in the artist's footsteps.

Sculpture of a legendary French dragon.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

A fortified palace in the shape of a ship on the Thiou river.

The largest underground church in Europe.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

This small island, a byproduct of 19th-century canal construction, is now home to a charming Japanese garden.

Old vessels have been transformed into artistic canvases in this unusual cemetery.