It might look like just a pile of sticks—because it is. But there's a dark history to how this stack got its start.

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

The art museum is decorated with creatively remodeled pre-Nazi swastikas.

A symbol for the opposition to nuclear power around the world.

The decaying remains of a 1960s mechanical wonderland that never officially closed.

A statue of the original Pearly King is hidden in a church's crypt.

A public display of random paleontology.

The final home of the legendary Danish sailor said to have lived to be 146 years old.

A portable, wooden replica (minus the hyphen) of Hamburg’s iconic crooked coffee shop.

This dockworkers' lunch joint has been left leaning by a century of storm floods.

This modernist tower was saved by a fraternity with a 500-year-old penchant for shooting at wooden parrots.

This quiet bird sanctuary on the Danish coast is home to something not usually found in a conservation area: hunters' cabins.

The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.

Money made from smuggling sugar helped create this wondrous rock maze in honor of the Prussian Queen Louise.

Faith and landscaping come together in a small Danish haven dubbed the "Bible Garden."

A failed attempt to control drifting sands yielded a gnarled sylvan wonderland.

These 18th century gardens tell a rocky story of the son of Odysseus.