Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

An 18th century wonder of the world, lost in WWII, re-created at the Catherine Palace.

Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

The Guardian of Tallinn.

The oldest church in the Estonian capital is home to over 100 fantastical cemetery coats-of-arms.

A black cat protests the City Guild in Riga's Old Town.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

This statue inspired by Renoir's famous painting embodies the jovial spirit of Key West.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

This legendary "evil" doll has been haunting the citizens of Key West for over 100 years.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

One of England's most famous churches hides a pair of little known architectural treasures.

A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.

The quirky gift from West Berlin for the 1968 World's Fair still stands in Hemisfair Park.

The mysterious canine hides atop a drain pipe on the back of the building, some say as a sneaky shoutout to Yale.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

In Cold Spring, New York, a shrine containing Godzilla and an assortment of plastic dinosaurs stands dedicated to a teenager who died in a car accident in 1996.

This strange, big-tailed beast became a Pennsylvania town's unofficial mascot.

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.

A 14th-century abbey founded by a forest-loving order of monks now sits in the center of a pristine nature preserve.