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

The last Viking king of Denmark is buried inside the crypt of this cathedral.

Once a meeting point for great thinkers, and the midpoint of the country.

An "evil painter" included pointed symbols in this artwork to poke fun at members of the Danish Parliament.

In legend, this ancient dolmen was said to have been created when a troll tried to destroy a church.

This inverted metropolis model is the artist's "revenge" for not being allowed to have a doll house as a kid.

This Danish park has celebrated the American independence day since 1912.

This museum is a portal to 20th-century Denmark.

A symbol for the opposition to nuclear power around the world.

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

An exhibition of preserved locomotives housed in a 1950s depot shows the history of Denmark's railway.

A spiralling hourglass-shaped tower rises from the forests in Denmark.

A former smithy turned cultural hub with the capital's largest mural space.

A model memorial to the original Odin Tower, the second highest tower in Europe before it was sabotaged by Danish Nazis.

The final home of the legendary Danish sailor said to have lived to be 146 years old.

Did he come up with a theory of cosmic-ray showers while sitting in this bath?

The house where a Danish physicist discovered the connection between electricity and magnetism.

This legendary dive bar boasts a collection of over 1,300 clown figurines.

This risqué sculpture, based on a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, caused outrage 35 years after it was erected.

Discovered in a peat bog, these horned helms come from a thousand years before the Viking Age.

Positioned outside a church, this sinister folkloric figure incited protests in both 1902 and 2002.

An unconventional and naturalistic sculpture depicting the artist marking his territory on an exterior faculty wall.

Deep in the forest of northern Denmark, this secret underground bunker was built at the height of the Cold War.

This aged paving stone, marked by a maiden's foot imprint and the tales of her plunge from the cathedral tower, serves as a memorial to a tragic local legend.