An unexpectedly extraterrestrial room in a former Victorian resort club.

Picturesque ruins once held off mighty armies.

Created as a punny statement about genetic engineering this monstrous hybrid statue has become a beloved icon.

The Liverpool street made famous by the Beatles is real.

Gutted during the Liverpool Blitz, this architectural husk has been left destroyed in honor of the dead.

A hundred copies of Antony Gormley's naked body stare out across the water.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

A rotating bridge that carries a little canal over a larger one.

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

Stay overnight in the world's most sleekly designed rabbit hole, free of charge.

Thousands of years of crashing waves gave this mushroom-shaped rock its svelte figure.

A serpentine highway twists and turns over the treacherous Norwegian Sea.

The world's first and only escalator for lazy bicycles and their daunted riders.

Housing the famous Norwegian ice-defying 19th century polar exploration ship.

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

Across the Pacific in a raft, a museum dedicated to Thor Heyerdahl's now legendary expedition.

One man's exploration of the human form, including the bizarre and delightful "Man Attacked by Babies."

The design of this beautifully crafted building was inspired by Norwegian glaciers.

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

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

The largest bottled beer collection in the world holds over 22,000 unique beer bottles.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

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