What looks like a birch tree smushed between two pieces of glass often confounds commuters.

Now a hotel, this former bank was the site of a robbery that spawned a psychological phenomenon.

This statue and park honor the Swedish chemist Jacob Berzelius, one of the founders of modern chemistry.

The scars of a remarkably organized public protest to save 13 elm trees are still visible in this Stockholm park.

Hidden in plain sight, Sweden's official ordnance datum is now abandoned.

This homeless brass fox tugs at your heartstrings from the foot of a Stockholm bridge.

A temporary art piece to celebrate LGBTQ Pride is now a permanent part of Stockholm's traffic landscape.

A miniature model of the iconic Stockholm department store.

Although rarely used, there is still a hidden room for the royal family at the Stockholm central station.

An abstract representation of weather in Sweden.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

This chimerical bridge/tunnel appears to dead end right into the sea.

The art museum is decorated with creatively remodeled pre-Nazi swastikas.

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

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

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

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

An old Danish political institution where members of government can grab a drink off the record.

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

This ordinary street was made infamous by a legendary visit from the devil.

One of Scandinavia's largest mosaics pays tribute to Danish art and science luminaries.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

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