Norway has built what may be the world's most beautiful public toilet.

This giant boulder is pinched over a 1000-meter abyss by two mountains.

A serpentine highway twists and turns over the treacherous Norwegian Sea.

Walk 2,300 feet above the ground on the "Troll's Tongue."

A tiny, remote island packed with wonders both natural and geeky.

What if all public housing projects had been designed by "the Pygmalion of modern architecture," not only their prototype?

For a brief time in 1960s France, families could climb into a tiny submarine and be pulled along an underwater journey.

A crumbling island fortress that seems to be covered in a field of stone crosses but is simply incomplete.

Sky ships, planes, and portraits left as unique tokens of hope and thankfulness.

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

Rome's semi-secret peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

This beautiful 19th-century temple stands atop the ruins of its predecessor.

One of the most easily accessible examples of the rare 1960s UFO houses.

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

Wars fought and wars won are remembered by these abandoned bunker ruins.

A wooden replica of France's famous tower.