The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.

Cold storage for agricultural biodiversity.

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

Longest road tunnel in the world features an air treatment plant and the illusion of daylight.

One thousand trees were planted in Norway to be used to print books a century from now.

A favorite with sightseers, this Norwegian funicular provides easy access to a stunning view of Bergen and its environs.

The world's largest moose statue towers above the highway between Oslo and Trondheim.

St George's Leprosy Museum depicts the gruesome afflictions of those suffering from the disease.

The world's northernmost ice hotel.

The world's largest underwater restaurant is submerged off the southern tip of Norway.

The design of this beautifully crafted building was inspired by Norwegian glaciers.

The last fully functional fortress of Germany's World War II Atlantikwall.

One man's exploration of the human form, including the bizarre and delightful "Man Attacked by Babies."

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

Located in a veterinary school, this macabre exhibit displays the effects of animal diseases.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

Cretean quarry suggests real-life site for ancient Greek myth of the man-eating Minotaur in his labyrinth.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.