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

This Denmark theme park is part family attraction, part experimental archaeology project.

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.

A natural wonder in south Denmark.

This secret collection of the strange and occult was rediscovered in a forgotten room of an old house.

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

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

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

A microbiologist-chef is slinging noodles with hyperlocal Nordic ingredients.

The world's northernmost brewery uses water from a 2,000-year-old glacier to create its beer.

The world's northernmost ice hotel.

Across the Pacific in a raft, a museum dedicated to Thor Heyerdahl's now legendary expedition.

Monuments don't get much more metal than these three giant viking swords planted in a Nordic hill.

Walk 2,300 feet above the ground on the "Troll's Tongue."

This "preacher's pulpit" once used for pagan ritual, is home to a new, and dangerous ritual.

The world's largest underwater restaurant is submerged off the southern tip of Norway.

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

An intricately carved Viking church overlooks a glistening fjord.

Walk through a restaurant's refrigerator door to reach this hidden bar.

A plain wooden seat that once belonged to one of the most prominent figures of the Protestant Reformation.

One of the most historical literary characters continues to stroll his hometown.

Large Hadron Collider and the Birthplace of World Wide Web.

The lost American era of gunfighters, bandits, Indians and steam trains is recreated in Sweden.

The second oldest anatomical theater is housed in a museum of curiosities.