Helsinki, Finland
Pohjola Insurance Building
This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.
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Helsinki, Finland
This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.
Helsinki, Finland
This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.
Aalborg, Denmark
This modernist tower was saved by a fraternity with a 500-year-old penchant for shooting at wooden parrots.
Vejle, Denmark
This unique architectural wonder is home to luxury apartments.
Ry, Denmark
Denmark's famous pseudo-hill.
Vejle, Denmark
When this Iron Age bog body was discovered in 1835, it was thought that she had died recently.
Skagen, Denmark
Tiring of digging out the door to this church for every service, it was eventually abandoned to the sands.
Jelling, Denmark
Mounds, rune stones, and a 1,000-year-old church, left behind by Denmark's first two kings.
Skagen, Denmark
The northernmost point in Denmark is a turbulent sandbar created by two clashing seas.
Silkeborg, Denmark
Iron Age "bog person" preserved for over 2,300 years.
Norresundby, Denmark
This Danish rock field is actually a sprawling ancient cemetery holding the bodies of 700 Vikings.
Borre, Denmark
A natural wonder in south Denmark.
Aarhus, Denmark
This colorful artistic feature atop a Danish art gallery allows visitors to stroll through a rainbow.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Discovered in a peat bog, these horned helms come from a thousand years before the Viking Age.
Copenhagen, Denmark
This sublime architectural marvel is a rare example of an expressionist church.
Copenhagen, Denmark
This pair of gilded girls atop an Art Deco building in Copenhagen were built to function as a weather indicator.
Borovets, Bulgaria
A crumbling monument to a now locally-extinct sport in Bulgaria's oldest ski resort.
Helsingør, Denmark
Just off the city’s central station hides a quaint lamp-lit alley into medieval Elsinore.
Viterbo, Italy
This fiberglass version of the Awakening sculpture by Seward Johnson, now resides in its third location in Italy, in Viterbo.
London, England
One of London’s rare Tudor-era buildings is a fate-defying gatehouse for a church.
Bahla, Oman
If you dare visit this fort, fire-breathing hyenas might devour your camels.
Bonifacio, France
A breathtakingly steep set of stairs is carved directly into the face of the sea cliffs of Bonifacio.
Bath, England
Since 1768, the pillar at Guildhall Market in Bath has been a hub of economic transactions.
Tangier, Morocco
Known to backpackers as the "Steps of Doom," this walkway carved into the side of a seaside cliff leads to the Roman Tombs.