Honoring the famed folktale author, this California museum looks like it belongs in the Black Forest.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into...we can't find the words.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

This historic estate on the east shore of Lake Tahoe was home to an eccentric millionaire (and his pet elephant, Mingo).

Stockholm's narrowest alley is barely over two feet wide.

The world's first and only escalator for lazy bicycles and their daunted riders.

When this 18th-century observatory's meridian was moved, it set Sweden's time back by 0.04 seconds.

A former suicide bridge is now accumulating symbols of love instead of a body count.

Stockholm's tiniest statue is of a small boy looking at the Moon.

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.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

A beautifully eclectic mix of architectural styles.

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

Opulence and fantasy collide in this royal chair which is supposedly made with unicorn horns.

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

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.