Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.

This cheerfully-named branch of the Chicago River is the fetid result of years of blood, entrails, and meatpacking waste.

Small and slightly hidden, the American Writers Museum is preserving the legacy of America's finest authors.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

This impressive working clock made of 16,000 plants changes its flowers twice a year.

This landmark jazz venue is the oldest continuously running African-American club in the United States.

A bronze ballot box stands at the spot where Susan B. Anthony voted illegally.

Maybe the only restaurant in the world where your seat will be signed by a Nobel laureate.

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.

Dine on food tied to Viking history and legend at this subterranean Stockholm spot.

A Bronze Age stone ship said to be the grave of the mythical founder of Gotland.

Believed to be the first museum dedicated to the films in the world.

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

The traveling wares of Denmark's most famous author.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

This sublime architectural marvel is a rare example of an expressionist church.

The design of this beautifully crafted building was inspired by Norwegian glaciers.

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

A stunning architectural yet functional feat, towering over Oslo.

This one-of-its-kind shipyard brings the 12th-century Viking Age back to life.

The last fully functional fortress of Germany's World War II Atlantikwall.

In the northernmost city in the world, it's illegal to be buried because it’s too cold for bodies to decompose.

Cold storage for agricultural biodiversity.

This abandoned mining village was predicted to resist decay longer than any other modern human settlement.