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One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

This floating garden in the sky is straight out of a fairy tale, but the real thing is nothing short of magical.

High Victorian fantasy created a fairytale castle out of a ruined fortress in Wales.

Two small chapels housed inside an ancient tree.

The UK's oldest theme park slowly slips away.

The world's largest collection of garden gnomes lives among the trees and wildflowers on this woodland reserve.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

A sturdy relic of Britain's once crucial gunpowder industry is now a haunting Cornish ruin.

A circle stone within a stone circle.

Fantastic stories on a miniature railroad.

This beautiful ridge-top trail is dotted by tiny homes apparently built by a group of itinerant fairies.

Jurassic theme park in the small town of Erlian.

Local legends say that fairies used to dance in the moonlight here and invite handsome young men into their grottoes.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

A local tree surgeon has created a whimsical walk full of carved tree stumps near Scotland's Loch Lomond.

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.

Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.

Hotel designed by indie graphics artists.

This quiet bird sanctuary on the Danish coast is home to something not usually found in a conservation area: hunters' cabins.

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

These old World War II fortifications have been transformed into an unusual equine attraction.

This huge industrial sculpture looks like a UFO and a factory had a baby.

This Danish art forest places loud works of contemporary art among the pensive silence of nature.

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