World's largest bell sits on the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow.

The tallest hotel in Europe.

Finland's northernmost zoo is home to the country's only polar bears.

If you visit Santa's village, you can get your passport stamped to show you crossed into the Arctic Circle.

Roughly 17 million letters to Santa have found their way to this Arctic Circle post office.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

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

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

An ancient necropolis of magnificent tombs.

The bronzed skull of a beheaded traitor was affixed to the city gate in the 17th century.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

This neon blue river gets its color from a unique mix of bacteria and volcano minerals.

After the Cuban Revolution, the famous rum company had to leave their swanky headquarters behind.

This bridge made famous in a novel and on-screen wasn't actually built over the river Kwai.

Six times a day a train runs right through the middle of this Thai street market, sending vendors scrambling.

A remarkable lava formation encloses a line of Buddhist statues that can't be accurately counted, according to local mythology.

A bronze statue dating back as far as 1252, still has remnants of gold on its right cheek from ancient gilding.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.