Located in an old church, this brewery produces a different kind of holy water.

Outside a Viking museum sits a modern-day runestone made by a Swedish runemaster using traditional methods.

When this 18th-century observatory's meridian was moved, it set Sweden's time back by 0.04 seconds.

The single richest source of elemental discoveries in the world.

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

Stockholm's deepest subway station is also a stunning ecological wonder.

A rare surviving Victorian greenhouse designed specifically to house giant water lilies.

The library's graceful rotunda is like a bibliophile's temple.

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

This shrine dedicated to a legendary swordsman has become a pilgrimage site for the ill and infirmed.

The site of Japan’s first archaeological excavation is also the birthplace of fingerprint forensics.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

This tiny museum hidden above a restaurant houses thousands of modern and traditional kites.

After being lost for decades, this striking mural depicting the atomic bomb covers the wall of a busy Tokyo metro station.

A solemn, monumental, kitschy palace of worship honoring victory in the Great Patriotic War.

Russian researchers who have been excavating ancient squirrel burrows may have brought a 32,000-year-old plant back to life.

An early-20th-century "dacha" village of quaint cottages curiously located in a modern part of Moscow.

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

Its front wall is striped with a menagerie of fantastic beasts and magnificent monsters.

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.

This hidden art nouveau gem was designed by an architect in search of a national style.

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.

Possibly the world's largest hourglass only needs to be reset every New Year's Eve.

From Austrians to Nazis to Soviets, this historic Budapest fortress has a history as complex as the city itself.