The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

Once at the center of U.S. finance, the historic Trading Room was meticulously recreated piece by piece and rebuilt in the Art Institute.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

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

The discovery of an old wall led to the creation of this fascinating museum about the city in the Middle Ages.

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

Largest island in the Baltic Sea experiences such idyllic weather that roses bloom in the middle of December.

A catapult rock from Gotland’s 13th-century civil war is still lodged in Scandinavia's best-preserved medieval city wall.

Known locally as the Jungfrutornet, this Medieval tower hides a dark legend.

Legend has it that this large rock maze in Sweden was created as punishment by the daughter of a wealthy captain.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

An abandoned train station in Munich constructed for the 1972 Olympic games.

King Ludwig I's collection of beautiful women.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

This beautiful 19th-century temple stands atop the ruins of its predecessor.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

When it was built in 1929, this historic bridge was the only place to cross the Colorado River for 600 miles.

Extremely isolated Silk Road caravanserai in the middle of nowhere.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

These elusive, isolated rodents evolved into a distinct, locally iconic subspecies.