This quarry filled with 65 million-year-old limestone is now home to a nature reserve.

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

The world's first combination ski slope and power plant.

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

Hotel designed by indie graphics artists.

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

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

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

Museum on earth sciences featuring a recreation of a famous curiosity cabinet.

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.

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

Site of the first radio and telephone broadcasting companies in Copenhagen.

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

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

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

Visitors are treated to a stained glass kaleidoscope interior inside this work of art.

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

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

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

This bridge's unique architecture honors nautical heritage and encourages self-awareness.

A little-known cafe in an old copper bridge tower with 360-degree views of the harbor.

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

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