Places NicholasManila Wants to Go

Each year melting snow turns these Austrian hiking trails into scuba zones.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

A natural wonder in south Denmark.

This colorful artistic feature atop a Danish art gallery allows visitors to stroll through a rainbow.

Vortex-shaped aquarium hosts Europe's largest school of piranhas and other ocean creatures.

Six beautiful wooden giants are hidden around Copenhagen.

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

This sublime architectural marvel is a rare example of an expressionist church.

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

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

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.

This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.

This lake-bound geographical marker sits at the point where three European countries intersect.

Collection of nearly 500 concrete figures sculpted by the late Veijo Rönkkönen.