Beneath Denmark's Højbro bridge, a bronze merman and his seven sons forever mourn for the mother and wife who left them for land.

Museum on earth sciences featuring a recreation of a famous curiosity cabinet.

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

A museum filled with tiny, adorable versions of the mighty Royal Danish Navy.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

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

An enormous playhouse designed to look like 21 stacked Lego bricks, with another 25 million colorful Legos inside.

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

These old World War II fortifications have been transformed into an unusual equine attraction.

A charming beach town in Turkey captures all the colors of the rainbow.

This deceptively beautiful island was once home to a German concentration camp and known as "Death Island."

The convergence of two currents makes this a surprisingly pleasant getaway in the Arctic Circle.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

Ten shipwreck-shaped chalets lie along the sand dunes on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast.

A spectacular hidden beach in Ireland has the dark, disturbing nickname of "Murder Hole Beach."

Two old windmills got a new life as oversized sculptures of a man and a woman.

Legend has it that not even Stalin could pull down the 2015 European Tree of the Year.

This small Estonian hill is covered in hand-made twig crosses that are said to bring good luck.

Mysterious craters may have been home to an ancient cult.

A clerical error gave rise to this imaginary micronation in the southwestern corner of Estonia.

This public toilet built in the famous Amsterdam School architectural style is a Dutch national monument.