This memorial to the victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 is often compared to a potato on a skewer.

17th century palace once a meeting place for politicians.

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

Opulence and fantasy collide in this royal chair which is supposedly made with unicorn horns.

A novel collection of medical curiosities housed in an 18th-century surgeon training academy.

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

A floundering Polish shipyard was once the soul of the Solidarity movement that capsized communism.

This Communist-era residential block is one of the longest residential building in Europe.

This antique thermometer honors the creator of the first universal temperature scale.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.

These enormous, stern-faced statues greet visitors with lanterns, and sometimes costumes.

Walk along the medieval fortifications that have been protecting Tallinn since the 14th century.

The Guardian of Tallinn.

Spend your honeymoon where the Devil had his wedding.

A model village fit for an emperor.

An 18th century wonder of the world, lost in WWII, re-created at the Catherine Palace.

Inside the world's largest seed bank, WWII botanists elected to starve to death rather than compromise their collection.

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

A man-made island fort that has housed soldiers, scientists, and ravers.

A gift from the Soviet Union in the 1980s, this is the only statue of the Soviet dictator in Southeast Asia.

Monument to a brutal, ineffectual US bombing campaign and a sobering reminder of the human cost of the Vietnam War.

Home of the unusual art of water puppetry, one of Vietnam's oldest curiosities.