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

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

Denmark’s oldest bakery is home to the 'Wednesday Snail,' one of the best cinnamon rolls on the planet.

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

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

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

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

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

This bronze marker acknowledges an embarrassing royal blunder.

These waste baskets play a few risque messages to discourage littering.

This millstone commemorates a gruesome tale that may have been the source of the city's name.

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

Swedish skyscraper with a 90° twist.

This cone-shaped bomb shelter, modeled on German design, is a rare WWII relic that never saw use but still looms over the harbor.

This poignant sculpture of a gnarled weapon is a symbol of non-violence.

A somber statue commemorating a Danish merfolk-tale.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.