This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

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

A beautifully eclectic mix of architectural styles.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

In a city that boasts four separate inclined cable railways, this is one of the busiest funicular lines in the world.

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

Frequent fliers welcome in this airplane hotel.

A Japanese video game arcade hides in the back of a Swedish pool hall.

A golden egg-shaped sauna in the Arctic tundra.

Crooked windswept pines give this old forest an enchanted and magical look.

Bring your hiking shoes, wool socks, and thermal underwear for a stay in these cozy forest huts.

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.

Street artists transformed this abandoned industrial neighborhood into one of Europe's largest graffiti exhibitions.

Now a hotel, this former bank was the site of a robbery that spawned a psychological phenomenon.

This roadside park filled with unusual statues is on the grounds of an abandoned railway station.

The Belgian royal family's private depot now stands abandoned and forgotten alongside the tracks.

Brussels' favorite peeing boy has a sister.

This Greek temple, open only an hour a day, was the site of a war of tastes between an architect and an artist.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

Three floors of musical instruments coming from all corners of the world and hundreds of years of musical history.

The Devil’s own choice when he needs a drink in Brussels.

This collection of over 50 murals celebrates Brussels' rich history as the self-proclaimed home of the "comic strip."

This colorful but controversial ceiling has been likened to a 21st-century Sistine Chapel.