A Viking-style brewpub named for a Norse sea giant, in the heart of fjord country.

A thin pane of glass keeps visitors from sliding off this futuristic skywalk.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

City law dictates that this mountaintop cathedral containing the heart of a saint is to remain the tallest building in town.

The only example of a Paris Métro sign in use at a subway station outside of the French capital. 

A swaggering, monumental souvenir of the most extravagant party Montreal’s ever thrown.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

The grandson of a Kiowa chief created what has become the iconic symbol of a city on the Plains.

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

Portugal’s highest lighthouse has one of the most impressive focal planes in the world.

This glass skywalk offers vertiginous views down the volcanic cliffs to the beach below.

A shrine-like museum entirely dedicated to soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo.

A micronation on an islet along the coast of a Portuguese island.

Men in rubber-soled boots serve as your "brakes" on this toboggan ride Hemingway described as "exhilarating."

Crafted from ocean litter, this sculpture highlights the ills of overconsumption.

These small, triangular, colorful houses are a staple of Madeira Island.

It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.

Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers all gather on this historic square in Morocco.

Liechtenstein's royal family calls this medieval alpine castle home.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

Launched by Napoleon's soldiers more than 200 years ago, a cannonball remains embedded in the tower wall.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

A sculpture of a beloved local figure, who tipped his top hat to everyone he passed on the streets of Bratislava.

An ode to a soldier who came to town, fell in love, then began making his own sparkling wine.