After funding was cut for a memorial to the Danish author, the sculptor had his statue ceremonially lowered into the city harbor.

This mom-and-pop Japanese sweets shop has been serving cloud-light mochi for almost a century.

An ode to one of the first concerts broadcast via satellite.

During the solar phenomenon "Lahaina Noon" this bendy, curvy sculpture forms a perfectly circular shadow on the ground.

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

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

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

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

This contemplative sculpture made out of old machine parts is meant to be the first in a series of sculptures around the world.

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

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

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

This Danish rock field is actually a sprawling ancient cemetery holding the bodies of 700 Vikings.

Plans for this local observation tower were debated for so long, the allocated funds lost value and the design had to be changed.

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

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

Denmark’s never-ending bridge.

A small island hides in plain sight on Austin's Lady Bird Lake.

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.