Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

A rare wooden coffin set vertically into the Gothic arch of an ruined church.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

Banksy's image of a naked man dangling from the window of a sex health clinic.

Western Europe's only representation of a Roman goddess still in its original location sits in an unassuming park.

A memorial to the politician who became Great Britain's first fatality to be caused by a locomotive.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

Danish observation tower designed to look like a giant beer bottle.

Nordic giants resurrected from the sea and restored to their former greatness.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

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