Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

A perfectly running 230-year-old silver automaton and music box.

Perhaps the tiniest sculpture in Saint Petersburg is a little bronze finch inspired by a song.

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

The big toe of this towering monument to a Croatian national hero is worn from years of superstitious rubbing.

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

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.

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

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.

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

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

Elaborate tile work in this railway station tells the story of Portugal.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.