Explore the entire world on foot at this quirky Danish attraction

In Hobro, Denmark, you can circumnavigate the entire globe in under an hour.

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Skip across Africa, pop over to Europe, stroll through Asia, paddle across the Pacific Ocean, and then admire North America’s Great Lakes – all in the course of an afternoon.

Verdenskortet is a scale map of the world created out of grass and stones.

The name even means “world map” in Danish.

Built between 1944 and 1969 on the edge of Lake Klejtrup, the map was the handy work of Søren Paulson, a farmer living on family land with an adjacent lake.

Poulsen built the entire thing with his own primitive tools and a wheelbarrow. He marked his world with country flags, showing which country each area corresponds to.

The project took so long because Poulsen did it solo, and only during his spare time. This resulted in most of the work being done during winter when he was able to push big stones onto the lake that had frozen over. When the warm, spring temperatures hit, the lake would thaw and the stones would settle into place in the mud below.

The map is also entirely to scale.

According to Atlas Obscura, 27cm or so on the map corresponds to 111km in the real world.

There's a cafe on-site, and visitors are able to row-boat in the ‘oceans’ or play mini-golf on the continents.