The world's first interactive human body museum also serves as a chair for a giant orange man.

Three connected pink triangles memorialize persecuted gays and lesbians throughout history.

One thousand trees were planted in Norway to be used to print books a century from now.

A little-known sculpture park of contemporary environmental art in a Lapland forest.

One of the most breathtaking railways in Europe also takes one of the steepest climbs, from fjord to mountain plateau.

Norway's oldest cathedral still in use.

An intricately carved Viking church overlooks a glistening fjord.

The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.

A favorite with sightseers, this Norwegian funicular provides easy access to a stunning view of Bergen and its environs.

This Dresden church was purposely rebuilt Protestant after being demolished in World War II.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

The history of German architecture is explored across this fairy-scale mini-city.

This German museum is devoted to all aspects of grave culture from headstones to coffins.

This historic stone bridge has an entire neighborhood clinging to its sides.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.