The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

The painter of "The Scream" is laid to rest under a stoic bust of himself in the humble corner of an Oslo cemetery.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

This cairn marks the only place where Central European Time, Eastern European Time, and Further-eastern European Time meet.

One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

South Korea's love of the silly photograph is on full display at this goofy collection of trompe l'oeil paintings.

The darkest building on Earth was built for the snow-white scenery of the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Physicist’s epitaph provides final confirmation to a career of turmoil.

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

Legends surround an ancient tree trunk riddled with nails for good luck.

Museum devoted to the artificial language of Esperanto.

The steepest classic funicular in the world glides along a dizzying incline.

At 929 pounds and 26 feet tall, this stainless steel fork can only be used by the likes of King Kong.

A Swiss board game museum housed inside a picture-perfect castle.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

These magnificent 240-year-old machines are considered distant ancestors of the computer.

The alpine falls where Sherlock Holmes apparently met his demise can actually be visited.