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According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

Europe's only museum solely dedicated to the history of whaling still has a fully-functioning whaling ship.

Despite the groans of archaeologists, this astounding groups of Bronze Age petroglyphs have been painted red for tourists.

Norway's national monument to fallen seamen.

These delicate sand pyramids look like naturally occurring gothic spires.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

A unique form of erosion created an uncanny landscape of boulders perched atop slender columns of clay.

A climbing route in the mountains of Italy’s Dolomites, built for soldiers during World War I.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

Monuments don't get much more metal than these three giant viking swords planted in a Nordic hill.

The ruins of this medieval castle in Northern Ireland have inspired artists from C.S. Lewis to Led Zeppelin.

The last fully functional fortress of Germany's World War II Atlantikwall.

The world's tallest bridge is also possibly the most elegant.

A 14th century bridge built as a fortress, where the devil lurks on one of its towers.

According to legend, this boat-shaped henge is built over the grave of a mythic king.

The ruins of this gorgeous clifftop castle look like something from a fantasy novel.

An abandoned lighthouse awaits its destiny: being buried under shifting sand.

A six-ton wedding present for the King of the Scots.

A pyramid in Central Europe of unknown origin.

The one-time stronghold of the noble Douglas family, now home to ghost sightings and nesting birds.

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

This Danish rock field is actually a sprawling ancient cemetery holding the bodies of 700 Vikings.

What was once an underground Nazi city is now Europe's largest bat reserve.

This chimerical bridge/tunnel appears to dead end right into the sea.