Glowing orb in Minsk houses 8,600,000 items.

The Voodoo Superstore of the world.

A monument to the more than one million enslaved Africans deported from the port of Ouidah.

Dozens of snakes are housed and worshipped within the walls of this Vodun temple.

18th century opera in its original splendor.

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

On Nobel Street, a miniature statue of Alfred Nobel.

This pair of unsuspecting buildings are in fact the very first modern skyscrapers in Europe.

A temporary art piece to celebrate LGBTQ Pride is now a permanent part of Stockholm's traffic landscape.

The 19th-century home of Count and Countess von Hallwyl is now a museum.

Now a hotel, this former bank was the site of a robbery that spawned a psychological phenomenon.

Outside a Viking museum sits a modern-day runestone made by a Swedish runemaster using traditional methods.

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

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

Finally reunited, the three effigies now stand in a museum courtyard.

A king's bloodstained shirt is among the gruesome collection of artifacts displayed below Stockholm's Royal Palace.

This legendary dessert was served to Nobel laureates for decades.

Maybe the only restaurant in the world where your seat will be signed by a Nobel laureate.

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

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.

This gem from the industrial age helps visitors and residents alike traverse hilly Stockholm.

Artists have long been drawn to these atmospheric 12th-century ruins.

One of three sites in England that house the National Collection of Arms and Armour.

The bizarre headgear looks like it was made for a fool, not a king.