Micro-nation based around a nine-story high illegally built tower.

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

Bring your hiking shoes, wool socks, and thermal underwear for a stay in these cozy forest huts.

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

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

A cathedral resurrected from the ashes of one of Europe's greatest urban fires.

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

Site of the first radio and telephone broadcasting companies in Copenhagen.

An "evil painter" included pointed symbols in this artwork to poke fun at members of the Danish Parliament.

This Danish park has celebrated the American independence day since 1912.

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

The only surviving piece of Copenhagen's 16th-century defensive wall.

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

This ordinary street was made infamous by a legendary visit from the devil.

The art museum is decorated with creatively remodeled pre-Nazi swastikas.

An old limestone mine transformed into a beautiful and unusual sculpture museum.

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

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

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

Tiring of digging out the door to this church for every service, it was eventually abandoned to the sands.

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

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

The oldest amusement park in the world has been providing a nice spot to have some fun since the 1500s.

A little-known cafe in an old copper bridge tower with 360-degree views of the harbor.