Pigduck of Turku.

This floating sculpture of ice is a poignant reminder of nature's power.

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

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

This city square is home to Amsterdam's oldest church and a statue honoring Dutch sex workers.

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.

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

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

A crucified and bearded female saint.

Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.

One man's personal collection of KGB memorabilia is presented along with his strange viewpoint.

Microscopic scenes; some call it novelty, some call it art.

A museum of alchemy and a basement laboratory all housed in an ancient building in a Gothic tower.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.