Places platyjule Wants to Go

Nordic giants resurrected from the sea and restored to their former greatness.

A perfectly circular stronghold constructed in the 10th century is now a nucleus of Viking culture housing a museum, village, and reenactment of an epic Viking battle.

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

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

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 fairy tale forest hides scenes from some of the more obscure and bizarre Western nursery stories.

A taxus-tree to which Julius Caesar reputedly tied his horse.

The site where one of the most famous poems of World War I was composed is preserved to honor the legacy of the work.

In an area where the remnants of WWI are discovered on a regular basis this preserved frontline trench may be the most amazing.

Each spring, a dreamlike carpet of bluebells overtakes the forest floor.

A magical and peaceful ruined Cistercian abbey in what is now southern Belgium.

Two gravestones clasp hands over the religious divide.

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

A beautiful maze marks where three countries meet.

All that remains of the only English cathedral destroyed in the Protestant Reformation.

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient Roman religious cult contains an exquisite traditional fresco.

This house's itty bitty size means no humans allowed.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

This bronze statue was erected to honor a small Scottish town's beloved stray cat.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

A colossal sculptural lion built by the same man who designed the Statue of Liberty.

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.