This striking royal residence is the largest Renaissance-style castle in Scandinavia.

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

This Danish castle is supposedly haunted by a woman too independent to not be a witch.

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

A perfectly circular stronghold constructed in the 10th century is now a nucleus of Viking culture housing a museum, village, and reenactment of an epic Viking battle.

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

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

Vortex-shaped aquarium hosts Europe's largest school of piranhas and other ocean creatures.

Six beautiful wooden giants are hidden around Copenhagen.

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.

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

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

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

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

Inside this faux cave, visitors can learn how some of their favorite fantasy characters were created.

An eerily charming collection of salvaged buildings and curios grown out of a family scrap business.

Nature's slip and slide.

Largest Kauri tree in New Zealand.

Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.

New Zealand's epic shrine to all things puzzling.

The premier place to experience the Victorian imagining of the steam-powered future.

Modern art meets modern convenience in possibly the world's most architecturally important public bathroom.

The world's only complete colossal squid specimen is on display at the Te Papa Museum.