Places cobcheese Wants to Go

This abandoned mining village was predicted to resist decay longer than any other modern human settlement.

The world's northernmost aquarium looks like it has fallen over.

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

An abandoned lighthouse awaits its destiny: being buried under shifting sand.

The original home of the Lego has a huge amusement park dedicated to the iconic plastic toy.

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.

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

A natural wonder in south Denmark.

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

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

Remote and wild, Kinnarodden is the northernmost point of mainland Europe.

This one-room museum is dedicated to Norwegian history and jokes.

The world's northernmost ice hotel.

The gnarled remains of an exploded German bunker from World War II sit along a breathtaking fjord.

This lake-bound geographical marker sits at the point where three European countries intersect.

This solitary convex mirror sculpture at an abandoned ferry station at the edge of a fjord reflects the scenery back at the viewer.

According to the locals, the sands of this secluded Norway beach are infused with gemstone particles.

Norway has built what may be the world's most beautiful public toilet.

A naturally occurring tunnel in this Nordic mountain makes it look like it's been shot.

A stunning silver lining to global warming's gloomy cloud.

An intricately carved Viking church overlooks a glistening fjord.

Walk behind a 50-meter-high waterfall.

A living museum working to keep the traditions of building and repairing handmade wooden boats, ropemaking, and blacksmithing alive.