Places ElineB Wants to Go

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

Museum on earth sciences featuring a recreation of a famous curiosity cabinet.

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

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

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

This sublime architectural marvel is a rare example of an expressionist church.

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

Danish observation tower designed to look like a giant beer bottle.

The remains of the observatory of the Danish astronomer who first measured the speed of light.

Six beautiful wooden giants are hidden around Copenhagen.

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.

Considered one of the most haunted places in Europe, this 800-year-old castle was home to noble prisoners.

Built after WWII, the observatory site for the University of Copenhagen exhibits once world-class instruments.

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

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

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

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

The ruins of a medieval castle that once belonged to one of the most powerful families in the Netherlands.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

A 26-foot shark sculpture—a statement about bombs—set off a municipal battle royale.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

The ghost town where the villagers refuse to leave.

The Greek island's old British cemetery feels like a forgotten garden.