A Danish fisherman spent 25 years covering nearly every inch of his home with tens of thousands of shells as a gift to his wife.

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.

From buck blood to Theriak miracle tonic, this collection of Renaissance chemist's gear look's like a wizard's pantry.

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.

A small Denmark town displays a pair of titanic jaw bones as their community symbol.

An abandoned lighthouse awaits its destiny: being buried under shifting sand.

This historic orchard contains Northern Europe's largest collection of paradise apple trees.

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

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

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

A monument to the thrice mayor of London who according to lore made his fortune by selling his rat-chasing cat.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

An exercise in radical design and social living that became the epicenter of Soviet spy networks in London.

This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

This third-generation institution is one of the last in London that still cures its own salt beef for epic sandwiches.

This pair of gilded girls atop an Art Deco building in Copenhagen were built to function as a weather indicator.

Visitors are treated to a stained glass kaleidoscope interior inside this work of art.

Danish observation tower designed to look like a giant beer bottle.

An entire shopping mall and industrial terrain named for the time the king of Sweden's car went into a ditch.

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

A rare surviving Victorian greenhouse designed specifically to house giant water lilies.

Stockholm's tiniest statue is of a small boy looking at the Moon.