Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

Thirteen sculptures in central Moscow graphically depicting vices of the modern world.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

A marble Lucifer hides behind the pulpit of this Gothic cathedral.

A rare example of World War I trenches from the British front.

Sculpture designed by Turkish artist and professor Mehmet Ali Uysal.

Amsterdam's Red Light District leaves little to the imagination.

This bronze statue of Martin Luther King was placed in the park without permission.

This vast collection of smoking pipes from across the world spans centuries.

Debatably clever, or just plain honest hotel advertised as "The Worst Hotel in the World."

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

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

Across the Pacific in a raft, a museum dedicated to Thor Heyerdahl's now legendary expedition.

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

The world's oldest individual clonal tree looks like a wimp despite standing tall for 9,550 years.

This collection of 80 polarizing foods aims to challenge your subjective notions of repulsion.

A rare surviving Victorian greenhouse designed specifically to house giant water lilies.

This homeless brass fox tugs at your heartstrings from the foot of a Stockholm bridge.

The world's largest model of our planetary system.

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

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

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.