This simple roadside art installation ended up sparking a folk art movement and a controversy of international proportions.

The dome-shaped reservoir of this old water tower produces unique acoustic effects.

A peat bog in southern Sweden provides a cozy and photogenic home for junked Volvos, Saabs, and the occasional American muscle car.

The library's graceful rotunda is like a bibliophile's temple.

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

A village in India with a mysteriously high number of twins.

Ruins of a former government building destroyed during the Georgian-Abkhaz war in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union.

The remains of 40,000 humans, meticulously stacked in a tiny churchyard shed.

Most powerful transmitter in Germany only broadcasts in the French language.

An expansive complex of subterranean tunnels is all that remains of one of Europe's most formidable medieval fortresses.

Fifty years of contamination in Scotland's waters.

A glacial pothole was once a hideout for a notorious Scottish outlaw.

The Titanic sails again in one Scotland man's backyard.

Even after the church tried to wipe the practice out, this pagan festival lives on each year in a small Scottish village.

Where the sleeping monsters of Scotland's oil industry are left to rust.

A memorial to a Swedish hockey player's "encounter" with aliens.

Micro-nation based around a nine-story high illegally built tower.

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

This Scandinavian island is the site of the first modern observatory.

Home to 200 plaster casts of Scandinavian proboscises.

This micronation's flag honors its favorite drink, Kaffegöken, or "cuckoo-coffee."

A former hen house turned curiosity cabinet displays one man's lifelong fascination with cannibalism.