This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

A cemetery in Barcelona's Poblenou district is home to this touching funerary statue, which depicts death in the form of a winged skeleton.

The 2,000-year-old Roman columns are hidden within Barcelona's Gothic Quarter.

This former Baroque palace on the historic Calle Montcada is a rare architectural gem and was once the meeting place of an aristocratic scholarly society.

Bask in the 19th century grandeur of an eccentric Freemason millionaire's private gardens.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

This tile-work piece featuring a chicken riding in carriage is both a remarkable artistic creation and a social commentary of politics and culture in 17th-century Portugal.

A garden in Lisbon filled with giant porcelain creatures.

This charming candle shop has been in business since 1789.

Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.

Maybe the only restaurant in the world where your seat will be signed by a Nobel laureate.

A steel paper plane is all that remains of a crashed aircraft that caused an amazingly small amount of damage.

A plaque marks the house in Stockholm where the French philosopher René Descartes lived up until his death.

Dine on food tied to Viking history and legend at this subterranean Stockholm spot.

Sweden's first nuclear reactor, R1, can be visited 25 meters underground.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.