Places bluefem44 Wants to Go

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

Prank chair from an 18th-century Danish royal court shows the eternal popularity of fart jokes.

A somber statue commemorating a Danish merfolk-tale.

This sculptural representation of an Andersen fairy tale had to be pushed away for being too grim.

Copenhagen's "other" little mermaid marks the historic location of past sea maid sightings.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A novel collection of medical curiosities housed in an 18th-century surgeon training academy.

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.

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.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

An expansive complex of subterranean tunnels is all that remains of one of Europe's most formidable medieval fortresses.

A shining memorial to a Belgian hero is said to bring luck to anyone who touches it.

Brussels' favorite peeing boy has a sister.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.