The final resting place of the author who gave us the Little Mermaid, the Ugly Duckling, and many more beloved fairy tales.

An "evil painter" included pointed symbols in this artwork to poke fun at members of the Danish Parliament.

The art museum is decorated with creatively remodeled pre-Nazi swastikas.

Bored potato-guarding Nazis etched their thoughts onto a brick storage building in Copenhagen's Meatpacking District.

Beneath Denmark's Højbro bridge, a bronze merman and his seven sons forever mourn for the mother and wife who left them for land.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

The "plyscraper" is the world's tallest building made predominantly out of wood.

The ruins of Vancouver's abandoned heritage railway.

Vancouver's only resting place for the city's deceased.

This rare example of Vancouver's Victorian past was the home of one of the city's first bookbinders.

A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

The collection of signage remembers the midcentury pushback against the new neon light.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

A UNESCO-protected spiritual seat of the Old Serbian Kingdom and Empire.

This 15th-century Ottoman bridge was modified to keep up with the changing course of the river Erenik.

The site where the leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army was killed is now a memorial.

As of 2022, the 124 rooms of Kosovo ski resort remain empty.

This stone figurine was made more than 6,000 years ago and depicts a female deity of the Neolithic Vinča culture.

The ceiling of this cavern is dripping with multicolored marble stalactites.

Christianity and Islam have clashed, yet here a Serbian Orthodox church and a mosque stand together.