This city square is home to Amsterdam's oldest church and a statue honoring Dutch sex workers.

A public display of prehistoric space rocks is named for the Namibian village where they were found.

A fortress off the West coast of Portugal that dates back to 1502.

This now abandoned restaurant provides some of the most amazing views of Lisboa.

A hidden three-foot-wide house separates these two regal churches.

An early work of the architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, these swimming pools blend into the beach.

Abandoned ships along a deserted beach feel like the set of a post-apocalyptic thriller.

The unexpectedly beloved remnants of a controversial thermal power plant.

The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.

Legend has it this spring formed at the spot where a medieval Swedish king was killed.

A large collection of ancient runestones decorates this university courtyard.

Legend says this fabled well held part of a mythical Norse tree.

This mysterious runestone embedded in a church wall is linked to the medieval cult of Saint Erik.

The official meeting point for the oddly named governing assembly of ancient Sweden.

Uppsala's adorable feline sign celebrates a popular children's book set in the Swedish city.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

Eat a Nobel banquet from any year in the basement of Stockholm's City Hall.

The largest and best-preserved Roman amphitheater in Africa was designed to seat 35,000 people.

The reason for the strange contortions in the trunks of these "drunken" pine trees in Russia is still a mystery.

A small part of Russia that does not touch any other part of Russia.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

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

Hidden beneath a beautiful overlook you’ll find the history of the city depicted in comic strip format next to a pay toilet.