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A perfectly circular stronghold constructed in the 10th century is now a nucleus of Viking culture housing a museum, village, and reenactment of an epic Viking battle.

This Denmark theme park is part family attraction, part experimental archaeology project.

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

The gilded, masterful astronomical clock will calculate time, dates, and planetary positions for thousands of years to come.

Opulence and fantasy collide in this royal chair which is supposedly made with unicorn horns.

Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

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

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

The world's largest maze is a nature park with nearly 200 decision points.

A walkable map of the world, made from soil and stone by one man.

This historic orchard contains Northern Europe's largest collection of paradise apple trees.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

A small Denmark town displays a pair of titanic jaw bones as their community symbol.

The northernmost point in Denmark is a turbulent sandbar created by two clashing seas.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

This World War II bunker now survives as a documentation of the Nazi regime and war crimes.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".