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

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.

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

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

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

A collection of noses tucked inside an art museum reveals how times have changed.

Museum on earth sciences featuring a recreation of a famous curiosity cabinet.

The gilded, masterful astronomical clock will calculate time, dates, and planetary positions for thousands of years to come.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

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

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

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

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

This sublime architectural marvel is a rare example of an expressionist church.

An ultra-modern diversity park in Denmark has turned an entire city block electric pink.

This Stockholm art museum integrates many of its pieces into the surrounding outdoor areas and natural landscape.

The "geometrical" center of the country, as calculated in 1947.

In the town of Åtvidaberg, the midday sun sets off a loud cannon boom.

The world's largest model of our planetary system.

The final resting place of a young stagecoach robber who refused mercy.

The Lund University's former gym houses a museum focusing on the creative process of art.

Around 9,000 ties call this museum home.

An art installation composed of items left behind by beachgoers.