Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

The world's biggest version of the popular Swedish souvenir.

Living trees form the structure of an open-air palace.

Giant origami sculptures tucked into desert scenery beckon passers-by to explore further.

A Wes Anderson-esque lighthouse that boasts magnificent coastal views.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

This small museum nestled inside a souvenir shop is dedicated to Sweden's most well-known toy.

Swedish mice can dine at the Nuts of Life restaurant or take a date to the amousement park.

It's always game time at Stockholm's only museum devoted solely to video games.

The world's biggest floating museum in Gothenburg, Sweden.

If there is one thing you don't want to be in Sweden during Christmas, it's a Yule Goat.

Crooked windswept pines give this old forest an enchanted and magical look.

This chimerical bridge/tunnel appears to dead end right into the sea.

Largest island in the Baltic Sea experiences such idyllic weather that roses bloom in the middle of December.

The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.

The library's graceful rotunda is like a bibliophile's temple.

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

A series of modernist treehouse hotel rooms grace the outskirts of an Arctic forest.

A little-visited waterfall in an otherworldly landscape.

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

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.