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

Vortex-shaped aquarium hosts Europe's largest school of piranhas and other ocean creatures.

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

This aged paving stone, marked by a maiden's foot imprint and the tales of her plunge from the cathedral tower, serves as a memorial to a tragic local legend.

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

This museum is a portal to 20th-century Denmark.

An exhibition of preserved locomotives housed in a 1950s depot shows the history of Denmark's railway.

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

A model memorial to the original Odin Tower, the second highest tower in Europe before it was sabotaged by Danish Nazis.

This functioning parish church is also the site of many concert performances due to its wonderful acoustics.

The great polar explorer is remembered in this far northern town, where he embarked on his final expedition.

This monumental work of art symbolizes the coming together of a previously divided city.

A memorial in the Tiergarten is a reminder of the suffering inflicted on homosexuals by the Nazi regime.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

This water-tower-turned-high-end-apartment building was once the site of an early Nazi concentration camp.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

An astonishingly accurate water clock that doubles as an hourly spectacle in this Berlin shopping area.

For patriotic Russians, this memorial honoring the Soviet soldiers who died liberating Berlin in 1945 is the most sacred location outside of Russia.