A novel collection of medical curiosities housed in an 18th-century surgeon training academy.

Climb to the top of its spiral spire for spectacular views of Copenhagen.

Museum on earth sciences featuring a recreation of a famous curiosity cabinet.

A collection of noses tucked inside an art museum reveals how times have changed.

A little-known cafe in an old copper bridge tower with 360-degree views of the harbor.

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

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

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

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

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

The nuns here cultivate silk to weave some of the finest scarves in the world.

The rocky remains of an ancient Greek forest.

Single runway interrupted by a busy road that cuts across its middle.

A perfectly circular lake is formed by the crater of an ancient underwater volcano.

One of the largest Roman settlements in Portugal.

"Portugal's Stonehenge" is made up of nut-like stones aligned with the heavens.

This crumbling Portuguese ruin overlooks the populace it once ruled.

The verdant mossy ruins of a Franciscan monastery lie in the remote Sintra hills awaiting exploration.

This fairy-tale, neo-Gothic church in the Azores is a world of magical realism.

This gaping hole in the middle of a remote mountain lake looks like a portal to another dimension.

Elaborately carved to showcase the glorious wealth that the age of exploration brought to the Portuguese empire.

The medieval castle built as headquarters for the Pope's secretive Knights Templar.

Picturesque intersection of witchcraft and ancient Christianity.

A unique seaside cave where Aleister Crowley faked his own death.