Places Vrielinkie Wants to Go

A trompe-l'oeil fresco celebrating 250 Walloon figures who left their mark on the region.

This unfinished sculpture, once loathed by locals, ultimately earned their affection.

This work of art, which took 35 years to complete, has a motorway running through it.

Two sections of the old dam that made it possible to tame the Meuse in Belgium in the 19th century.

Though Guinness took away its record, Romedenne’s 1998 wheelbarrow remains the biggest of them all.

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

The final resting place of one of the brightest physicists of the 20th century.

Hidden in plain sight, a gravestone seemingly inscribed from the future stands among the cemetery’s historic tombs.

The final resting place of the author who gave us the Little Mermaid, the Ugly Duckling, and many more beloved fairy tales.

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

Traditional Danish spot where the schnapps are flowing and the smørrebrød is loaded.

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

A somber statue commemorating a Danish merfolk-tale.

Long before ultrasounds and modern testing, medical specimens like these conjoined twins helped physicians learn about congenital anomalies.

This contemplative sculpture made out of old machine parts is meant to be the first in a series of sculptures around the world.

Did he come up with a theory of cosmic-ray showers while sitting in this bath?

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

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

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

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

Denmark’s ultra-modern library hides a treasury of rare, unique books.

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

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

A towering sculpture, likened to an adult toy, sparked local and national debate.