Places KatjaSm Wants to Go

Longest road tunnel in the world features an air treatment plant and the illusion of daylight.

These 4,444 wooden steps straight up a mountain were built to serve a hydroelectric power station but these days, they're mostly used by hikers.

Norway's oldest cathedral still in use.

Monuments don't get much more metal than these three giant viking swords planted in a Nordic hill.

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

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

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

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

Five matching towers make this church unique. Legend credits a troll.

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.

A spiralling hourglass-shaped tower rises from the forests in Denmark.

A bronze fountain celebrating a strange, seductive, long-breasted, motherly creature from regional folklore.

This aged paving stone, marked by a maiden's foot imprint and the tales of her plunge from the cathedral tower, serves as a memorial to a tragic local legend.

The last Viking king of Denmark is buried inside the crypt of this cathedral.

After funding was cut for a memorial to the Danish author, the sculptor had his statue ceremonially lowered into the city harbor.

This enchanting spring, steeped in local lore and a touch of royal history, was said to be the place where newborns were collected, rather than being delivered by storks.

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

A walkable map of the world, made from soil and stone by one man.

In legend, this ancient dolmen was said to have been created when a troll tried to destroy a church.

A natural wonder in south Denmark.

Digger attempting to hide itself under 300 tons of rubble.

At these downtown crossings, pedestrian lights show axe-wielding Vikings instead of the usual walking figures.

Denmark’s never-ending bridge.

A giant pair of rose-tinted sunglasses offers an illuminated view of Aarhus Bay.