Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

Bored potato-guarding Nazis etched their thoughts onto a brick storage building in Copenhagen's Meatpacking District.

The art museum is decorated with creatively remodeled pre-Nazi swastikas.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

Museum on earth sciences featuring a recreation of a famous curiosity cabinet.

The gilded, masterful astronomical clock will calculate time, dates, and planetary positions for thousands of years to come.

A collection of noses tucked inside an art museum reveals how times have changed.

The largest bottled beer collection in the world holds over 22,000 unique beer bottles.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

Opulence and fantasy collide in this royal chair which is supposedly made with unicorn horns.

Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Portland had a unique approach to Cold War-era protections.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

42nd story Pyramid shaped penthouse tops Seattle's oldest skyscraper.

This historic building provides a powerful glimpse into the lives of Japanese Americans forced to relocate during World War II.

A piece of Seattle’s historic Chinatown preserved inside a modern museum.

A Boeing mechanic and his wife leave a whimsical, stone sculptured garden as their legacy.

This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.