Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

This verdant, tree-lined Reykjavik graveyard is both enchanting and eerie.

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

A monument dedicated to the civil uprisings that took place during the Pots and Pans Revolution.

The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.

The block of aged dairy is probably still edible after 2,300 years in a peat bog.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

An enigmatic monument to the Irish revolutionary who plotted an uprising against British rule.

Dublin's most modern, visually spectacular bridge is modeled after Ireland's national emblem.

The house where the writer spent his formative years.

This courtly monument celebrates an influential comedian who turned taking the piss out of the powers-that-be into an art.

A winding district gerrymandered into the shape of a mantis.

One of Kyoto's oldest food establishments has supplied soba noodles to temple priests and the Imperial Palace.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

A museum dedicated to the legacy of Bob Moog and his pioneering synthesizers.

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

The only pub in the world surrounded by an ancient stone circle.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Smoky, also known as "Yorkie Doodle Dandy," was a four-pound hero of World War II.

17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

A memorial in the Tiergarten is a reminder of the suffering inflicted on homosexuals by the Nazi regime.

A bronze tribute to a legendary Californian, the self-proclaimed "Emperor of the United States."