Explorer Kongens Lyngby

Sea fort at the mouth of Copenhagen harbour, part of the city's defences from 1713 until after the First World War.

The great glasshouse of the Copenhagen Botanical Garden, built in cast iron and glass in 1874, with a spiral stair to a walkway among the treetops.

Denmark's national gallery of art in Copenhagen, with admission free for visitors under 18.

Artist-run contemporary art exhibition space founded in 1891, located on Oslo Plads in Copenhagen.

Botanical garden of 10 hectares in central Copenhagen, best known for its complex of historical glasshouses dating from 1874.

The Copenhagen house on Øster Voldgade where Jón Sigurðsson, leader of Iceland's independence movement, and his wife Ingibjörg lived from 1852 until 1879.

The University of Copenhagen's natural history museum, whose grounds take in the Botanical Garden, the Palm House and the butterfly house.

Museum of working life in central Copenhagen, in the assembly hall the labour movement built for itself, with a 1950s flat and a period coffee shop.

Star-shaped citadel with five bastions, one of the best-preserved fortresses in northern Europe and still in military use, with ramparts open as a park.

Edvard Eriksen's bronze of Hans Christian Andersen's mermaid, 1.25 metres tall, on a rock at the Langelinie promenade since 1913.

Museum, library and archive of the Royal Life Guards, opened by Queen Margrethe II and Prince Henrik in January 1978.

Christian IV's Dutch Renaissance castle by the King's Garden, begun in 1606 as a summer house and completed by 1624, now holding the crown jewels.

Powder magazine inside the Kastellet fortress in Copenhagen, among ramparts that are open as a public park.

An immersive art experience of 12 themed rooms on Frederiksborggade near Nørreport, part of the IKONO chain founded in 2020; a visit takes about 45 minutes to an hour.

The English Church, an Anglican parish church built from 1885 to 1887 by Arthur Blomfield in Gothic Revival style, in a park beside Kastellet and the Gefion Fountain.

Fountain at Nordre Toldbod beside Kastellet, showing the Norse goddess Gefjon driving four oxen as they plough the island of Zealand out of the earth.

Museum on Kronprinsessegade built around C. L. David's private collections, with one of the West's finest holdings of Islamic art. Admission is free.

Denmark's oldest professional theatre, founded on Nørregade in 1857 by Hans Wilhelm Lange and now part of the Københavns Teater group.

The Danish Film Institute is the national agency for Danish film, housing the Cinemateket cinema, library and FILM-X in Copenhagen.

The Danish Film Institute's cinema on Gothersgade, screening film history and new releases, with a library and a restaurant.