Places ashuryn Wants to Go

An ultra-modern diversity park in Denmark has turned an entire city block electric pink.

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

A former smithy turned cultural hub with the capital's largest mural space.

An unconventional and naturalistic sculpture depicting the artist marking his territory on an exterior faculty wall.

This sculptural representation of an Andersen fairy tale had to be pushed away for being too grim.

Four whimsical figures make for an unexpected sight along an urban commuter route.

Hidden in plain sight, a gravestone seemingly inscribed from the future stands among the cemetery’s historic tombs.

This ultra-modern wooden boardwalk turns the ocean into a swimming pool.

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

The oldest amusement park in the world has been providing a nice spot to have some fun since the 1500s.

This Scandinavian island is the site of the first modern observatory.

At this small shop off a dirt road in the forest, the specialty is eel the owner caught and smoked himself.

The remnants of a luxurious resort that saw its peak in the 1970s and 1980s has been abandoned since 2009, leaving behind the wreckage of both the hotel and a beautiful ice skating rink.

The largest known open fault in the United States is basically a giant natural refrigerator.

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

This Central New York ghost town was once a prosperous railroad community.

This once sprawling resort now sits abandoned, filled with graffiti and vibrant colors from an era long passed.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

This once luxurious Catskills resort is now a haunting ruin.

The world's third-largest crystal sphere has sat in the Penn Museum since 1927 with the exception of one outlandish theft.

This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.

One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.

The abandoned coal loading dock is a canvas for unsanctioned art.

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.