In downtown Oslo, a menacing and terrifying relief clings to a church wall.

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

The painter of "The Scream" is laid to rest under a stoic bust of himself in the humble corner of an Oslo cemetery.

The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.

This hidden workshop is filled with molds of France's most iconic sculptures.

The post-apocalyptic remnants of a bucolic town ruined by a plane crash.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

Striking images of New Orleans history, including colonizers, soldiers, Klansmen, scientists, sharecroppers, and more, are depicted in frescoes that line the walls of this transportation hub.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?

Imagine playing a version of Legends of the Hidden Temple, but with a distinctly Southern Gothic flare.

Head past the aisles of tropical fruit and imported candy at this bodega to discover a hidden, weekends-only taco stand.

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.

A little piece of Paris in the sultry south of the U.S.

An impressive collection of dollhouses and an homage to the frog-leg canning industry.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

An ancient Viking runestone hidden in plain view in Stockholm's old town.

This Viking Age memorial contains the oldest known image of a Täby resident.

A medieval church that contains murals from famed artist Albertus Pictor.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

At one of Berlin’s oldest churches, visitors can place mosaic tiles to help restore a medieval mural.

Five painted skeletons are hiding behind a church in this tiny village in the Italian Alps.

Underneath this Byzantinian church lies a necropolis filled with ancient tombs and the ruins of previous churches.