The first attack on the continental U.S. during WWII occurred off the coast of a quiet California golf course.

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

Opulence and fantasy collide in this royal chair which is supposedly made with unicorn horns.

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

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

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

The original home of the Lego has a huge amusement park dedicated to the iconic plastic toy.

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

This colorful artistic feature atop a Danish art gallery allows visitors to stroll through a rainbow.

A public display of random paleontology.

Preserved "bog person" that is over 2,000 years old.

Along this stretch of beach in Denmark resides several massive bastions of energy.

Remnants of the Nazis' occupation of Denmark linger along the sand.

Tiring of digging out the door to this church for every service, it was eventually abandoned to the sands.

The northernmost point in Denmark is a turbulent sandbar created by two clashing seas.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

Acres of natural wonders left behind by a socialite-turned-gardener.

The beautiful behemoth is one of the largest trees of its kind in the United States.

One incredible room in the Santa Barbara Courthouse is covered in wall-to-wall canvas murals.