Places Olndskan Wants to Go

An old limestone mine transformed into a beautiful and unusual sculpture museum.

Mounds, rune stones, and a 1,000-year-old church, left behind by Denmark's first two kings.

Four alabaster giants contemplate the tides on the shore of Denmark.

Bored potato-guarding Nazis etched their thoughts onto a brick storage building in Copenhagen's Meatpacking District.

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

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

This museum is dedicated to the most famous Irish writers in history.

This statue celebrating everyday life in Dublin has a few unsavory nicknames.

This colorful and fiery mural depicts the Irish folk story of the beloved hero Cuchulain.

The house where the writer spent his formative years.

This courtly monument celebrates an influential comedian who turned taking the piss out of the powers-that-be into an art.

One of Antoni Gaudí's least-visited works, an homage to Catalan patrimony that mixes neo-Gothic with Modernista forms.

Possibly the oldest church in Barcelona, this basilica has its pagan and Christian mythologies all mixed up.

A once-secret library of Freemason history in Catalonia.

Week-long block party becomes a competition for the best decorated street.

An unusual stroll through gentlemen's erotica demonstrates that pornography is timeless.

A beloved local artist has been honored with this statue of a man emerging from a toilet.

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

A medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.

A monumental fountain in Rome features a large statue of Moses that has been criticized for centuries.

An enigmatic modern marker left next to a historic Roman site.