One of the world's largest collections of pharmaceutical artifacts.

Where the lovelorn find a home for their sentimental keepsakes.

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

A perfectly circular stronghold constructed in the 10th century is now a nucleus of Viking culture housing a museum, village, and reenactment of an epic Viking battle.

Home to 200 plaster casts of Scandinavian proboscises.

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

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.

The convergence of two currents makes this a surprisingly pleasant getaway in the Arctic Circle.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.