A monument to the 4,114 Irish orphan girls who arrived in Australia between 1848 and 1850.

The bones of this aquatic dinosaur turned to opal over the centuries and the beast's remains were almost sold as jewelry.

This letter written by Queen Elizabeth II in 1986 won't be opened until 2085.

Native Australian lizards inhabit this garden celebrating Sydney and its sister city in China.

Australian museum dedicated to human health and lack thereof.

Nature is leading a successful mutiny on this century-old freighter.

A boardwalk winds through this sliver of coastal nature hidden within Sydney.

The oldest European burial ground in Australia.

At five meters long, that is one big piece of foam poop.

Concrete spud looks like the North American Sebago.

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.

One of the largest legal spray spots in Hamburg.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

This ordinary street was made infamous by a legendary visit from the devil.

A novel collection of medical curiosities housed in an 18th-century surgeon training academy.

Bored potato-guarding Nazis etched their thoughts onto a brick storage building in Copenhagen's Meatpacking District.

Climb to the top of its spiral spire for spectacular views of Copenhagen.

A little-known cafe in an old copper bridge tower with 360-degree views of the harbor.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

Beneath Denmark's Højbro bridge, a bronze merman and his seven sons forever mourn for the mother and wife who left them for land.

This sublime architectural marvel is a rare example of an expressionist church.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

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.