Places bernhardtem Wants to Go

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

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

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

Hidden in plain sight, the origin of these embedded skulls remains the stuff of legend.

This unique architectural wonder is home to luxury apartments.

This Danish rock field is actually a sprawling ancient cemetery holding the bodies of 700 Vikings.

Mounds, rune stones, and a 1,000-year-old church, left behind by Denmark's first two kings.

An enormous playhouse designed to look like 21 stacked Lego bricks, with another 25 million colorful Legos inside.

Nordic giants resurrected from the sea and restored to their former greatness.

A giant pair of rose-tinted sunglasses offers an illuminated view of Aarhus Bay.

Long before the hollyhocks and colorful facades, this lane was notorious for witch trials, infanticide, and prostitution.

At these downtown crossings, pedestrian lights show axe-wielding Vikings instead of the usual walking figures.

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

This colorful artistic feature atop a Danish art gallery allows visitors to stroll through a rainbow.

Denmark’s never-ending bridge.

A quirky, larger than life sculpture on an old bunker pays tribute to an eccentric carnival entertainer.

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

After funding was cut for a memorial to the Danish author, the sculptor had his statue ceremonially lowered into the city harbor.

Denmark’s oldest bakery is home to the 'Wednesday Snail,' one of the best cinnamon rolls on the planet.

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.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

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