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Preserved "bog person" that is over 2,000 years old.

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

Iron Age "bog person" preserved for over 2,300 years.

A natural wonder in south Denmark.

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

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Six beautiful wooden giants are hidden around Copenhagen.

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

Every spring, locals see the shadowy figures of a ghost army of slain Greek soldiers descend upon this ruined fort.

A magical, if a bit tacky, 1960s castle conjures up medieval fairytales and Greek mythology.

A miniature desert appears out of nowhere on the lush isle of Lemnos, like something out of a Greek myth.

This architecturally eclectic early-20th century mosque was built as a place of worship for the Islamic followers of a Jewish messiah.

This smily stone feline is meant to represent a mythical lion that almost destroyed the island of Kea.

This gem is often wrongly overshadowed by the larger, newer Metropolis church in Athens.

Poseidon? No one seems to know.

The historic tower houses of this nearly abandoned Greek town have been compared to the spikes on an iguana's back.

This field of half-buried stone crosses was the burial place of a sect of heretical gnostics.

This secret coastal village is studded with pastel-colored houses all piled on top of one another.

This open air archeological site houses almost as much wildlife as it does classical religious artifacts.

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

The rocky remains of an ancient Greek forest.

This 15th-century island fortress later served as home to the executioners no one wanted to live near.

This famous archeological mystery may be an ancient example of movable type.

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.