Places aemem Wants to Go

Mysterious craters may have been home to an ancient cult.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

This unique architectural wonder is home to luxury apartments.

A beautiful photography exhibition space housed in a former church.

This museum is a portal to 20th-century Denmark.

The final resting place of the author who gave us the Little Mermaid, the Ugly Duckling, and many more beloved fairy tales.

The last Viking king of Denmark is buried inside the crypt of this cathedral.

The largest of Denmark's seven mysterious round churches stands on an island in the Baltic Sea.

A failed attempt to control drifting sands yielded a gnarled sylvan wonderland.

This ordinary street was made infamous by a legendary visit from the devil.

This striking royal residence is the largest Renaissance-style castle in Scandinavia.

This Danish castle is supposedly haunted by a woman too independent to not be a witch.

Visitors are treated to a stained glass kaleidoscope interior inside this work of art.

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

Bored potato-guarding Nazis etched their thoughts onto a brick storage building in Copenhagen's Meatpacking District.

A novel collection of medical curiosities housed in an 18th-century surgeon training academy.

An enormous playhouse designed to look like 21 stacked Lego bricks, with another 25 million colorful Legos inside.

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

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

Climb to the top of its spiral spire for spectacular views of Copenhagen.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

Vortex-shaped aquarium hosts Europe's largest school of piranhas and other ocean creatures.

Six beautiful wooden giants are hidden around Copenhagen.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.