This pun was simply waiting to come to life, and one defense contractor made it so.

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

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

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

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

This Victorian-era public house has set the standard for pub-style elegance for over a hundred years.

A derelict bit of infrastructure from the canal that once ran through D.C. is landlocked in the heart of the city.

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

Iceland's "Smoky Valley" is a beautiful river that is shrouded in a constant cover of steam clouds.

The Hveragerði fissure runs through this unassuming shopping center.

Once the grandest synagogue in medieval Spain, it now stands as a memorial of the 15th-century Jewish exile.

A whimsical brother of the nearby Fallen Angel statue takes the falling part quite literally.

This mundane post marks the old location of the city's main postal hub.

A roadway designed for a visiting monarch.

Poetic, metallic giraffes adorn a square off an Edinburgh thoroughfare.

This historic timepiece was a popular meeting place for romantic rendezvous in the 1960s.

A statue in the heart of Edinburgh honors a bear that served in the Polish military during World War II.

A six-ton wedding present for the King of the Scots.

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

Recently restored menagerie of Victorian-era beasts.

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

These ornate arches show how the course of the River Thames has changed.

This ancient Egyptian obelisk still bears the wounds of World War I.