Top attractions in Copenhagen you can’t miss

The incredible Ripley’s Believe It or Not!

If you are looking for the most curious place in Copenhagen, than this is it, right on City Hall Square. Ripley’s Believe It or Not! showcases one of the world's most remarkable collections of optical illusions, weird art and incredible oddities. In the only odditorium in Scandinavia, you’ll find over 500 curiosities and exhibits.

Entering the odditorium is like opening a box of hidden treasures. At Ripley’s Copenhagen you can meet extraordinary people from the past and the present as well as see anything from a two-headed cow to genuine shrunken heads, and discover horrifying torture instruments people once used on each other, like a genuine chastity belt or iron maiden, and get up close and personal with a real mummified hand!

A hands-on haunting at the Mystic Exploratorie

The dark hallways of the Mystic Exploratorie are filled with thrills, illusions and mystical phenomena. You can visit doctor Jekyll’s laboratory and watch him transform in to mister Hyde, leave your own shadow behind on a wall, and dance with your own skeleton. Around the corners of the Mystic Exploratorie you’ll cross paths with an assortment of unsavoury characters, especially when you walk through a desolated graveyard at midnight.

The cunning illusions of the Mystic Exploratorie will leave you wondering what is real and what’s only in your mind. Did those paintings just move or was it a trick of the eye? Will you dare to sit in an electric chair, who knows what might happen when you do?

Up and around in the Round Tower

For a good view of the city you have the head up and find yourself above the city streets. In the heart of the city you can do just that at the Round Tower, one of Copenhagen’s most iconic landmarks. You only have to walk up a few stairs because the Round Tower has a wide spiral path that leads almost all the way to the top of the tower.

The Round Tower is the oldest observatory in Europe still in use, though mostly by amateur astronomers. The tower is also home to a grand library hall which holds exhibitions and was often visited by Hans Christian Andersen when he lived Copenhagen. And the observatory is surrounded by a platform, which many visit for magnificent panoramic views of old Copenhagen.