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

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

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

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

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

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

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

This sublime architectural marvel is a rare example of an expressionist church.

An ultra-modern diversity park in Denmark has turned an entire city block electric pink.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

A mysterious ancient cemetery with Roman sarcophagi and Lycian inscriptions.

The ornate miniature mansions were built for Istanbul's feathered residents.

Hidden just under the waters around this Turkish island are the ruins of a once great city.

Carvings in Turkey's Marble Road may have directed ancient Romans to a hidden brothel.

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

The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.

A small etching on the white marble parapet was written in runic script by a Viking mercenary.

Over the centuries, this island paradise has done it all, from providing monks with ecclesiastical respite to sheltering an exiled Leon Trotsky.

An Art Nouveau gem hides beneath the layers of city grime obscuring this once-magnificent building.

The alleged house of the Virgin Mary is tucked away in a park and nature preserve on Mt. Koressos in Turkey and is holy to both Catholics and Muslims alike.

A meow-velous tribute to a beloved street cat, made famous on the internet.

These tombs were built into the side of a mountain so that ancient angels could reach the dead.

Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.

A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.