A failed attempt to control drifting sands yielded a gnarled sylvan wonderland.

In legend, this ancient dolmen was said to have been created when a troll tried to destroy a church.

The world's largest maze is a nature park with nearly 200 decision points.

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

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

Nordic giants resurrected from the sea and restored to their former greatness.

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

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

This Scandinavian island is the site of the first modern observatory.

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

One of the world's few mounted blue whales, its jaws are hinged open allowing visitors to descend into a lounge.

This pyramid in southern Sweden houses the remains of an eccentric nobleman, who spent his life doing whatever he felt like doing.

Hundreds of mossy stones engraved with bits of philosophy, literature and random musings.

Overlooking a Scottish loch, this beautifully crumbling castle once inspired a poem by William Wordsworth.

This cramped crevasse saw the entire population of its island suffocated inside its depths.

The largest lake in the Faroe Islands seems to be held hundreds of feet above sea level thanks to an optical illusion.

During this Shetland Islands celebration, hundreds of torch-carrying "guizers" lead a procession to burn a viking longboat.

This castle was established by the 4th Duke of Montrose and is connected to the Buchanan Clan.

Earth's greatest purely vertical drop at 4,101 feet.

Neither bomb blasts nor heartbeats escape the giant ears of this super sci-fi Arctic outpost.

A completely underwater art museum sends a stark message about humans' impact on the environment.

Thousands of Haitians travel to the waterfalls to ask the Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel and her voodoo counterpart Erzulie for healing in a yearly pilgrimage.

Home of the "true" equator.

A town church once nearly submerged by the damming of a river is now hauntingly visible as the water recedes.