A replica of the home of a famous fictional troll family.

A museum honoring Germany’s cucumber mecca offers a great dill of gherkin history.

Explore the complex ecology of this multifaceted nature preserve by riverboat.

A relic from the Industrial Revolution got a second life as a contemporary performing arts space.

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

Twelve sweet, nutty, life-sized statues are housed in this second-story shrine to almond paste.

Once a year, local students "clean" this statue with a champagne shower.

A 90-ton, gravity-defiant steam locomotive shoots for the skies in this bizarrely beautiful public artwork.

St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

This easily overlooked memorial immortalizes the scars from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

This hidden art nouveau gem was designed by an architect in search of a national style.

Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.

A replica of the Liberty Bell rang daily from West Berlin's City Hall throughout the Cold War.

A unique Holocaust memorial tells the personal stories of the Jewish residents exiled from greater Berlin.

The skeletal frame of a decommissioned gas-pumping station offers breathtaking views of greater Berlin.

A Trabant car, a kangaroo statue, and a plethora of plants take over this abandoned-factory-turned-bar.

A 1970s resort city now stands abandoned, caught in the middle of a divided island.

The enormous isokinetic structure hangs within a science center in Estonia.

According to the Guanches, the aboriginal people of the Canary Islands, the king of evil lives inside this volcano.

A crumbling bakery where forced laborers from the nearby concentration camp toiled to feed their fellow prisoners and Nazi soldiers.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

The giant statue and its model solar system honor the native Pole who declared that the Earth revolves around the Sun.

This obscene artwork on the side of a newspaper office pokes fun at a rival paper's former editor-in-chief.