A statue honors the children who fought Nazis in Poland.

A tribute to the Polish insurgents who fought in the failed attempt to end their city's Nazi occupation.

The site of the first battle of World War II.

A floundering Polish shipyard was once the soul of the Solidarity movement that capsized communism.

A huge wooden clock that is so beautiful its creator was forcibly blinded.

Museum dedicated to "the man who moved the Earth."

An impressive monument to Poland's independence.

The traditional Polish croissant, folded 81 times into the shape of a horseshoe, is a legally protected cultural treat.

These mechanical goats first battled it out in the year 1551, all because of an overcooked deer.

A cluster of headless, armless sculptures looms within a popular Polish park.

An abandoned Nazi explosives plant founded by the inventor of dynamite is now an underground museum.

A natural wonder in south Denmark.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

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

Beneath Denmark's Højbro bridge, a bronze merman and his seven sons forever mourn for the mother and wife who left them for land.

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

The gilded, masterful astronomical clock will calculate time, dates, and planetary positions for thousands of years to come.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

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

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

The northernmost point in Denmark is a turbulent sandbar created by two clashing seas.

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

An exhibition of preserved locomotives housed in a 1950s depot shows the history of Denmark's railway.

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