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

The second-highest train station in Europe.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.

Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.

This giant sculpture made of trash is a critique of society's wastefulness.

A majestic hotel for dreamers rises from the center of a fairytale wood.

Some 4,000 individual tiles make up this striking blue billboard from the golden age of air travel.

A deer-headed statue that brings together a 12th-century legend and big wave surfing.

In Portugal, a secluded stretch of untouched natural beauty hides at the bottom of a steep hill.

One Portuguese poet described this cape, the westernmost point in mainland Europe, as "where the land ends and the sea begins."

This once-forgotten oasis in the middle of Lisbon was first created over a century ago quite by accident.

The best place in the world to buy tinned fish.

This unique architectural wonder is also tied to one of the 20th-century's most renowned writers.

Portugal's National Pantheon has a history of curses, collapses and financial problems.

This tile-work piece featuring a chicken riding in carriage is both a remarkable artistic creation and a social commentary of politics and culture in 17th-century Portugal.

Climb to the top of the world's largest seated bronze Buddha.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

These seven moai figures are the world's only sanctioned replicas of the Easter Island originals.

Hundreds of Buddhas in a re-discovered Indonesian temple.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.