A little over 15 km (10 mi) outside Copenhagen but a world away from the city is Frilandsmuseet, an open-air museum featuring more than 100 original buildings from rural environments dating from 1650–1950.
Lego House is the birthplace of the iconic Lego brick. The Lego Group was founded in 1932 and today is one of the largest toy companies in the world. The building is filled with 25 million Lego bricks, and visitors can physically and digitally build anything they want using them.
After exploring the house, make your way over to the Legoland Billund Resort and admire some of the country's most famous buildings and landmarks created in miniature, including Nyhavn (pictured), and Amalienborg Castle.
Immortalized as Elsinore in William Shakespeare's play 'Hamlet,' Kronborg Slot (Kronborg Castle) dates back to the mid-15th century. In 1964, a television play, 'Hamlet at Elsinore,' was filmed in the castle—the only version (with sound) of 'Hamlet' to have actually been shot within its walls. It stars Christopher Plummer in the title role and features Robert Shaw as Claudius, Donald Sutherland as Fortinbras, and Michael Caine as Horatio. The castle is a cherished UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Europe's best-preserved Renaissance moat-castle is found on the island of Funen, south of Odense. A tour of the handsome 16th-century stronghold includes access to the magnificent banqueting hall.
Denmark's Vikingeskibsmuseet affords visitors an opportunity not only to admire a number of vessels once used by the seafaring Scandinavians, but also a chance to witness firsthand how the Vikings constructed their longboats and how modern shipbuilders are restoring and repairing the vessels that have been unearthed.
Den Gamle By is another important open-air museum facility. Effectively a living history museum, the Old Town consists of 75 historical buildings collected from 20 townships in all parts of the country representing the mid-16th century up to the mid-19th century.
Visitors can wander the circular skywalk 'Your Rainbow' panorama art installation by Ólafur Elíasson, and while doing so observe the city of Aarhus below through every color of the rainbow.
Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) is one of Denmark's most revered authors, celebrated especially for his fairy-tales. A museum dedicated to his life and work includes his childhood home (pictured).
If you're into walking and cycling, consider a spell on Bornholm, a picturesque island in the Baltic Sea that promises peace and solitude, the odd windmill, and the evocative ruins of the medieval castle of Hammershus.
To tour palatial Frederiksborg Castle, built as a royal residence for King Christian IV in the early 17th century, is to explore the ornate rooms that once hosted royalty and nobles. The castle's interior also serves as an engaging Museum of National History.
The Danish Wadden Sea islands of Rømø, Mandø, and Fanø form part of a national park, which is also the world's largest continuous system of m&d flats and intertidal sand. Possessed of unique nature and culture, the park is particularly renowned for its horses and as home to the country's largest population of spotted seals.
Denmark's ancient Jelling stones are massive carved runestones from the 10th century, the larger of which features an inscription dedicated to the parents of the 10th-century Danish King Harald Bluetooth. Today's Bluetooth technology is named after the Nordic monarch. The stones are protected as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Roskilde Cathedral is the most important church in Denmark, the official royal burial church of the Danish monarchs, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. One of the earliest examples in Scandinavia of a Gothic cathedral built in brick, the cathedral stands tall and impressive on the island of Zealand.
Silkeborg Museum is the final resting place of Tollund Man, an individual who lived in the 5th century BCE, during the period characterized in Scandinavia as the Pre-Roman Iron Age. His naturally mummified corpse lay preserved in a peat bog for over 2,300 years. Denmark preserves the mummified bodies of two other ancient beings—Haraldskær Woman, whose similarly aged form is on display at the Cultural Museum in Vejle, and Grauballe Man, a peat bog body dated back to the late 3rd century BCE, during the early Germanic Iron Age.
One of the county's great natural wonders, Møns Klint in southern Denmark features an ancient forest of twisted trees overlooking towering chalk-white cliffs. The woodland and bleached rock are protected as a nature reserve.
