A strangely curved lamppost stands tall over this avenue in Rotterdam.

This charming pup is meant to celebrate the youth and stubbornness of the city's students.

Portraits of musicians line Oude Binnenweg, the jazziest street in the city.

An art installation memorializing a tram stop, which became a tram stop.

A nearly 25-foot concrete sculpture of Sylvette, Picasso's muse.

This hotel was once home to a steamliner company and became the final rest stop for Europeans heading to the New World.

Rotterdammers' dirty minds gave this santa a dirty nickname and cursed it to a life of wandering.

Cozy basement bar sports an inventory of over 2,000 beers.

Brussels' favorite peeing boy has a sister.

When you're a great Russian Tsar, even your vomit gets a statue.

A shining memorial to a Belgian hero is said to bring luck to anyone who touches it.

A bronze statue of the fictional character nicknamed "Mrs. Hat" from a beloved Belgian comedy.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

This statue and its surrounding plaques tells the story of Ko-kwal-alwoot and the kinship between the Samish people and the sea.

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

Faces carved into the cliffs create an otherworldly walking trail.

Beneath Denmark's Højbro bridge, a bronze merman and his seven sons forever mourn for the mother and wife who left them for land.

Museum on earth sciences featuring a recreation of a famous curiosity cabinet.

A sculpture of three large candles in the middle of the water of the river Smedjeån.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

In an effort to escape the horrors of slavery, one man mailed himself to freedom.

The maritime museum that boasts the largest nautical library in the western hemisphere.

Deep vertical fissures like miniature slot canyons cut across the cemented volcanic rock of Black Point above Mono Lake.