A museum filled with tiny, adorable versions of the mighty Royal Danish Navy.

Site of the first radio and telephone broadcasting companies in Copenhagen.

The final resting place of one of the brightest physicists of the 20th century.

Long before ultrasounds and modern testing, medical specimens like these conjoined twins helped physicians learn about congenital anomalies.

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

The final resting place of the author who gave us the Little Mermaid, the Ugly Duckling, and many more beloved fairy tales.

The only surviving piece of Copenhagen's 16th-century defensive wall.

This bridge's unique architecture honors nautical heritage and encourages self-awareness.

Beneath Denmark's Højbro bridge, a bronze merman and his seven sons forever mourn for the mother and wife who left them for land.

Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

Bored potato-guarding Nazis etched their thoughts onto a brick storage building in Copenhagen's Meatpacking District.

This seaside property, an example of Art Deco Streamline Moderne style, was designed to embody the curves of a great ship.

During the heyday of fishing in Hastings, there were more than 100 of these storage facilities.

A seven-century-old jail tells a not-so-pleasant history of crime and punishment.

These lights mark the area of Rotterdam that was bombed and burned in 1940.

A modern reimagining of a medieval city gate.

A dramatic art installation features a BMW flying out of a building in Rotterdam.

A statue of the second-tallest Dutchman in history.

The oldest skyscraper of Europe now stands dwarfed by the surrounding structures.

An art installation memorializing a tram stop, which became a tram stop.

Built by crowdsourcing, this wooden foot bridge saved a part of Rotterdam that was languishing in wait of city funding.

This small museum located under the famous cube houses, is home to some 30,000 chess pieces.

The oldest statue in the Netherlands has survived relocation, bombardment, and burial.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.