Go inside the house that inspired L. M. Montgomery to create one of literature's most beloved heroines.

On the waterfront of Sydney, Nova Scotia, a 60-ft. fiddle greets incoming ships.

This huge 12-foot concrete moose on the coast of Nova Scotia is the grandest of the sculptor's giant creatures.

The city of Halifax still bears the scars of the largest explosion prior to the atomic bomb.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.

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

The world's only flying boat museum honors a small Irish village that sent 20th-century aviation to new heights.

A particularly disconcerting tribute to Irish martyrs.

The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

A formerly glacier-tipped volcano that inspired none other than Jules Verne.

These ominous lava formations were said to be an entrance to the netherworld so of course they inspired a famous metal band.

This black church sits alone among a field of lava rock.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

The most powerful waterfall in all of Europe.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

The bright red stripes streaking across the rocks are the star feature at this Icelandic waterfall.

In Northeastern Iceland lies something of an oxymoron: a steaming desert.

Iceland's largest lagoon is home to stunning multi-colored icebergs.