Places NixOfNowhere Wants to Go

Europe's "only museum dedicated to the decapod" is full of quirky and absurdist displays, including one featuring the "famous" Giant Crab of Margate.

Overlooking the seaside town of Margate stands a tribute to an artist's lover.

Grotto replete with mystical designs laid out in glued shell mosaics.

This forgotten chalk mine was reopened thanks to a massive effort from the local community.

A former smuggler's haven houses "The Chapel" and its mysterious carvings.

During the heyday of fishing in Hastings, there were more than 100 of these storage facilities.

Every May, townspeople welcome summer with a bizarre pagan parade led by a man wrapped in garlands.

This ordinary street was made infamous by a legendary visit from the devil.

One of Scandinavia's largest mosaics pays tribute to Danish art and science luminaries.

Climb to the top of its spiral spire for spectacular views of Copenhagen.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

The world's first combination ski slope and power plant.

Discovered in a peat bog, these horned helms come from a thousand years before the Viking Age.

This sculptural representation of an Andersen fairy tale had to be pushed away for being too grim.

Hidden in plain sight, a gravestone seemingly inscribed from the future stands among the cemetery’s historic tombs.

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

Positioned outside a church, this sinister folkloric figure incited protests in both 1902 and 2002.

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

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

This wooden hotel is a temple to German sustainability and forest conservation.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.

An ancient Thracian city where fire rituals were practiced on the largest cult altar in Southeast Europe.

Ruins of an early Roman Christian church dating back to the 4th to 5th centuries.