Showing posts with the label Denmark

MS Hans Hedtoft: Denmark’s Titanic

Oct 3, 2023

Nearly five decades after the sinking of the Titanic , another tragedy struck in the oceans. A Danish liner was on her maiden voyage off the...

Uraniborg: An Observatory Without a Telescope

Aug 22, 2023

Before the invention of the telescope, astronomers relied on a variety of tools and techniques to observe and study the celestial objects an...

Dyrehavsbakken: The World’s Oldest Amusement Park

Jun 21, 2022

Just 10 km north of central Copenhagen, in the woods of Dyrehaven, sits Dyrehavsbakken, or simply Bakken, an amusement park that attracts cl...

Copenhagen’s Potato Row

Mar 26, 2021

In the heart of Copenhagen, not far from the harbor, are a series of closely laid streets with houses smashed together like rows of potato p...

The Audacity of Peter Tordenskjold: The Naval Captain Who Asked His Enemy For Ammo in The Middle of a Battle

Sep 12, 2020

On November 12, 1720 Peter Tordenskjold died in a sword duel. It will not sound familiar to most people, but he was one of the great nationa...

The Seaweed Houses of Læsø Island

Feb 9, 2018

On the island of Læsø, located off the coast of Denmark, there are houses with roofs made of seaweed. These roofs are up to a meter thick, a...

Copenhagen’s Urban Birdhouses

Nov 28, 2017

Thomas Dambo—you may remember him from a couple of months ago, where he constructed giant troll-like wooden sculptures and hid them around ...

Thomas Dambo’s Forgotten Giants

May 5, 2017

Danish artist Thomas Dambo has been building stuff using trash and recycled materials since an early age, starting with smaller sculptures ...

The ‘Whiskey War’ of Hans Island

Dec 13, 2016

In the remote north of the Atlantic Ocean, right on the edge of the freezing waters of the Arctic Ocean, lies a tiny speck of an island. Nam...

The Infinite Bridge in Aarhus, Denmark

Jul 18, 2016

The “Infinite Bridge” is located in Denmark’s second-largest city Aarhus. Designed by Gjøde & Povlsgaard Arkitekter for the 2015 “Sculpt...

Cisternerne: A Subterranean Water Reservoir Turned Into Art Gallery

Mar 11, 2016

Buried beneath Frederiksberg Hill in the heart of Søndermarken Park, in Copenhagen, is a massive underground space that once held up to 16 m...

World’s Most Beautiful And Outstanding Piers

Jan 20, 2016

Piers were originally built for the purpose of getting people and cargo from the boat to the shore without getting their feet wet, before th...

Kastrup Sea Bath: An Outdoor Swimming Pool in The Sea

Dec 1, 2015

Kastrup Sea Bath is part of the Kastrup Strandpark waterfront park on the east coast of Amager in Copenhagen, Denmark. It’s an outdoor swimm...

The World Map at Lake Klejtrup

Nov 21, 2015

The World Map on the banks of the Lake Klejtrup in Denmark is a 4,000-square-meter walkable map of the world built out of soil, stones and g...

Musical Roads That Play Melodies When Cars Drive Over

Nov 16, 2015

A Japanese engineer by the name of Shizuo Shinoda was digging with a bulldozer when he accidentally scraped some markings into a road with i...

The Cirkelbroen Bridge in Copenhagen

Sep 7, 2015

Copenhagen has a new artistic landmark, a bridge called Cirkelbroen, designed by the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson and opened last...

The Hippie Town of Christiania

Jul 16, 2015

In 1971 an abandoned military area in the borough of Christianshavn, in the Danish capital of Copenhagen, was taken over by squatters, and c...

Tollund Man, The 2,400 Year Old Bog Body

Dec 16, 2014

Over the past few centuries, men harvesting peat in European bogs have discovered the preserved remains of hundreds of human corpses called ...

The Sand Covered Church of Skagen

Oct 6, 2014

About 2 km southwest of the town center of Skagen, in Denmark, is a brick church half buried in sand. Known as Old Skagen Church or The Buri...

Superkilen, A Public Park in Copenhagen With Artifacts From 60 Countries

Jul 28, 2014

Superkilen is a public park in the Nørrebro district of Copenhagen, Denmark. Designed by the arts group Superflex with the collaboration of ...