The Wadden Sea, Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark

THE WADDEN SEA (Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark)

This intertidal zone in the SE part of the North Sea lies between the coast of NW Europe and the Frisian Islands. It forms a shallow body of water with tidal flats and wetlands, and high biological diversity. Its 3,900 square miles touch a 310-mile coastline; the dikes built to control flooding make it one of the most human-altered habitats on earth.

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Christiansfeld, Denmark

CHRISTIANSFELD (Denmark)

This town of 3,008 souls in Southern Denmark was founded by the Moravian Church in 1773 and named for Danish King Christian VII, who supported the town's construction. Its one- or two-story homogeneous buildings surround a central Church Square bordered by two parallel streets; it is the best-preserved example of the Church's town-planning and architecture.

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Jelling, Denmark

JELLING (Denmark)

Two massive carved 10th-century runic stones, one by Gorm the Old honoring his queen, Thyra, the other by his son Harald Bluetooth honoring them and celebrating his own exploits, stand between two originally Bronze Age barrows with later burial mounds raised over them for Gorm and Thyra; they're joined by standing stones shaped like a ship. A 10th-century church reportedly stands on a pagan burial site.

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Par Force Hunting Landscape, North Zealand, Denmark

PAR FORCE HUNTING LANDSCAPE, NORTH ZEALAND (Denmark)

Par force hunting was a sport for noblemen, not unlike today's fox hunting, but usually with larger game. A collection of hunting grounds and forests on a peninsula north of Copenhagen featured a unique central-star grid layout of roads, demonstrating the power of the king to command and the unique planning and design of hunting landscapes in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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