The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

This contemplative sculpture made out of old machine parts is meant to be the first in a series of sculptures around the world.

This millstone commemorates a gruesome tale that may have been the source of the city's name.

This bronze marker acknowledges an embarrassing royal blunder.

This collection of 80 polarizing foods aims to challenge your subjective notions of repulsion.

These waste baskets play a few risque messages to discourage littering.

Where visitors can play more than 150 retro arcade games.

A Soviet era flat that refused to conform to the dull gray standards.

In the midst of a living monument to Soviet social engineering, Polish Catholics built this church by hand.

This sprawling concrete suburb of Kraków was designed by the Soviet Union as the model proletarian city.

Extremely famous in his native country, this Cracovian painter is all but unknown beyond Polish borders.

Krakow's own version of the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

This ominous Albanian fortress houses tanks and downed planes as a reminder of their victories over Western imperialism.

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

A scenic UNESCO site that doubles as a habitat for various forms of wildlife.

Where mountaineers were checked for lice before entering the city.

The memory of the ancient unit of measurement of local builders.

These elaborate gothic monuments honor Verona's medieval lords.

The big toe of this towering monument to a Croatian national hero is worn from years of superstitious rubbing.

When a supermarket opened up shop within a medieval building it became protected by UNESCO on a technicality.

The silly symbol for an underground protest group is now scattered around the city.

This roadside monument commemorates the huge weapon built by an Ethiopian emperor's hostages.