2 Best Sights in Zealand, Denmark

The island of Møn is most famous for its dramatic chalk cliffs, known in Danish as Møns Klint. Circled by a beech forest, the milky-white bluffs plunge 400 feet to a small, craggy beach with jade-green waters—accessible by more than 500 steps. Fossils on the beach suggest that the cliffs are 70 million years old. The cliffs attract tens of thousands of visitors each year, who come for the views and to be close to nature.

Visit on a sunny day if you can, and park at the top of the cliff and walk down.

On the corner of Stengade and Sankt Annægade near the harbor is Sankt Olai Kirke, worth a peek for its elaborately carved wooden altar. Also in downtown are whole streets of medieval-era merchants' and ferrymen's houses—they're now modern shops.