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

This record shop and unofficial black metal museum is an ode to Oslo's heaviest musical export.

An image of the legendary saint stands in the shadow of a cathedral she liberated.

Made up of 3,200 recycled glass bottles, this tree pays homage to Asturia's love of cider.

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

"Holy Wisdom" overlooks the city that became its namesake.

A vast Communist-era exhibition space in the Bulgarian capital.

Once the grandest synagogue in medieval Spain, it now stands as a memorial of the 15th-century Jewish exile.

The remains of the second-oldest zoo in Europe can be seen within these library gardens.

An ancient Egyptian temple in the middle of Madrid, Spain.

Gutted during the Liverpool Blitz, this architectural husk has been left destroyed in honor of the dead.

This 18th-century fort surrounded by a moat was used to store gun powder and ammunition, and now sits in the middle of a large part in Dublin.

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

Lyon's "Wall of the Silk Weavers" is one of the largest murals in Europe.

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.

One of the longest wooden benches in the world snakes around Geneva's Treille Promenade.

This massive monument has been telling the time for 150 years—at a slight angle.

The last Victorian market in Belfast.

A giant sculpture of the legendary "Salmon of Knowledge" celebrates the return of fish to Belfast's River Lagan.

For part of the year, this innovative greenhouse is painted white to keep the plants from getting scorched.

One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.