2 Best Sights in Zealand, Denmark

The must-see Louisiana is a modern-art museum with fresh, temporary exhibitions and an impressive permanent collection that includes Picasso, Giacometti, and Warhol. Even if you're not an art lover, it's well worth the 30-minute trip from Copenhagen to see this beautiful combination of a 19th-century villa and modern Danish architecture, with its large sculpture garden and dramatic view of the Øresund waters. There's a children's section as well, where kids can draw and paint under the supervision of museum staff. In late August the museum is home to a literature festival with visits from some of the literary world's biggest names.

On the heath-covered grounds of this sculpture park there are 14 outdoor statues, and inside the stunning museum—designed by the sculptor and architect Rudolph Tegner himself—there are many, many more. Tegner was a controversial figure because of the monumental scale and content of his sculptures, but in recent years his art has gained more recognition. This museum is set in the middle of a wild, uncultivated part of North Zealand called Rusland (i.e., "Russia"), a name it was given due to its relative remoteness and wilderness.