Superb sweets await at the first Jewish bakery inducted into Berlin’s prestigious baker’s guild.

The Adriatic's most famous wind can be reliably experienced in the city's Marina.

As can be expected from a centuries old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

Watch a magnificent, ever-changing colorscape inside James Turrell's immersive work of art.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

This sturdy, circular stronghold served as one of the forts that protected the Venetian Lagoon.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

One of the largest caves in the world open to the public.

This solitary convex mirror sculpture at an abandoned ferry station at the edge of a fjord reflects the scenery back at the viewer.

A microbiologist-chef is slinging noodles with hyperlocal Nordic ingredients.

Mysterious man-made rock piles form an ancient cemetery on this rocky beach in Norway.

The last fully functional fortress of Germany's World War II Atlantikwall.

The largest cave in Northern Europe.

The world's northernmost ice hotel.

A reconstructed farm shows what life was like in Norway 1,500 years ago.

A thin pane of glass keeps visitors from sliding off this futuristic skywalk.

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

For six months of the year, three giant mirrors direct a pool of sunshine onto this otherwise occluded town.

Monuments don't get much more metal than these three giant viking swords planted in a Nordic hill.

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

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

An intricately carved Viking church overlooks a glistening fjord.