Places ElSilencio Wants to Go

Collection of nearly 500 concrete figures sculpted by the late Veijo Rönkkönen.

A collection of collections ranging from dentistry to minerals.

A lovingly curated curio shop in which the taxidermy wear newspaper party hats, and peanut shells are spread across every surface.

Menacing or in memoriam, the Silent People and their meaning are left to interpretation.

Legend has this precariously placed rock was placed by giants. Science has another explanation.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

This Danish rock field is actually a sprawling ancient cemetery holding the bodies of 700 Vikings.

This secret collection of the strange and occult was rediscovered in a forgotten room of an old house.

Six beautiful wooden giants are hidden around Copenhagen.

Remnants of the Nazis' occupation of Denmark linger along the sand.

When this Iron Age bog body was discovered in 1835, it was thought that she had died recently.

Mounds, rune stones, and a 1,000-year-old church, left behind by Denmark's first two kings.

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

Preserved "bog person" that is over 2,000 years old.

Iron Age "bog person" preserved for over 2,300 years.

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

This hanging crocodile is thought to be the "dragon" that once plagued a Czech city.

A cheeky architectural easter egg.

The mystery of the Putim Ossuary involves a tricorn hat.

These 17th-century mummies are no longer naturally preserved, but remain on display today.

Enormous sandstone towers loom within a Czech forest.

Mysterious painted skulls in Moravia.

A crucified and bearded female saint.

Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.