This strange pyramid is a unique feature of the Austrått Manor.

An impressive museum dedicated to the resource that made the Scandinavian country rich.

The great polar explorer is remembered in this far northern town, where he embarked on his final expedition.

A microbiologist-chef is slinging noodles with hyperlocal Nordic ingredients.

This subterranean funicular is one of the world's smallest subways.

The former home of Norway's greatest romantic composer.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

Atop the former site of a historic bakery sit two stone tributes to Verona's contribution to traditional Italian baking.

Elaborately carved to showcase the glorious wealth that the age of exploration brought to the Portuguese empire.

One of the oldest libraries in the world is still operating and contains the oldest existing document in the Italian language.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

A French-Colonial era collection of taxidermy and wet specimens, secreted away in the National University of Hanoi.