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The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This surreal art house looks like a geometric version of a small chapel.

The quiet field that inspired one of the most famous songs of all time.

In Twickenham sits a small whitewashed castle that inspired Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'

An ancient Scottish rock formation said to be the gravesite of a giant remains ensconced in legend and intrigue.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

Six beautiful wooden giants are hidden around Copenhagen.

A natural wonder in south Denmark.

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

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

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

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

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

A golden egg-shaped sauna in the Arctic tundra.

Now a hotel, this former bank was the site of a robbery that spawned a psychological phenomenon.

The library's graceful rotunda is like a bibliophile's temple.

A series of modernist treehouse hotel rooms grace the outskirts of an Arctic forest.

From Coke II to Google Glass, this exhibit features some of the most spectacular commercial flops.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.