This chimerical bridge/tunnel appears to dead end right into the sea.

Swedish skyscraper with a 90° twist.

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

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

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

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

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

The gilded, masterful astronomical clock will calculate time, dates, and planetary positions for thousands of years to come.

The oldest church in the Estonian capital is home to over 100 fantastical cemetery coats-of-arms.

Spend your honeymoon where the Devil had his wedding.

This medieval Estonian tower provides access to a series of tunnels that have been home to soldiers, punks, and fine art.

The Guardian of Tallinn.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.

This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.

This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.