With its vast selection of books, comics, and records, this nearly 70-year-old open-air market always rewards the patient browser.

105-foot wide giant metallic flower blooms anew every day in the heart of Buenos Aires.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

This floating sculpture of ice is a poignant reminder of nature's power.

Housing the famous Norwegian ice-defying 19th century polar exploration ship.

Across the Pacific in a raft, a museum dedicated to Thor Heyerdahl's now legendary expedition.

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

In downtown Oslo, a menacing and terrifying relief clings to a church wall.

One man's exploration of the human form, including the bizarre and delightful "Man Attacked by Babies."

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

A unique work of automotive art calls this shopping center home.

Some 80,000 Delft Blue tiles line the inside of this Amsterdam walkway.

A set of seven houses, each built in a style that represents a European country.

Sail in for a ’dam good slice.

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

This museum housed in a former brothel explores the past and present of sex work in Amsterdam.

This unattributed sculpture in Amsterdam is hiding in plain sight.

This bird-loving brewery is situated in an old municipal bathhouse, nestled beside a 300-year-old windmill.

Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam is a treasure trove of rare flora.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.

This dockworkers' lunch joint has been left leaning by a century of storm floods.

This wooden hotel is a temple to German sustainability and forest conservation.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.