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

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

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

A museum filled with tiny, adorable versions of the mighty Royal Danish Navy.

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

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

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

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

Climb to the top of its spiral spire for spectacular views of Copenhagen.

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

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

Opulence and fantasy collide in this royal chair which is supposedly made with unicorn horns.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

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.

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

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

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.

Dublin's most modern, visually spectacular bridge is modeled after Ireland's national emblem.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

A museum that cashes in on its infamous little people while teaching you a thing or two about the Irish fey.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

There is a strange little carving of a person seemingly crushed by a pillar behind the remains of St. Thomas Aquinas.