MS Hans Hedtoft: Denmark’s Titanic
Kaushik Patowary
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...
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Uraniborg: An Observatory Without a Telescope
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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 ...
