This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

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

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

This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

A tiny church on a man-made island in the Adriatic.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

The most visited pilgrimage site in Armenia once held a saint in a pit for 13 years.

The charmingly disheveled clock tower of Tbilisi's puppet theater.

Colorful and chaotic stacked hotel in North Holland.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

A floundering Polish shipyard was once the soul of the Solidarity movement that capsized communism.

A mysterious emblem tucked in an small alleyway is actually the coat of arms of a heroic medieval family.

An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.

The Guardian of Tallinn.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

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

Gargantuan home of Russian science.

This newly renovated Soviet-era outdoor exhibition center is bigger than the principality of Monaco.