Danish Museum of Art & Design in Copenhagen

You're standing on Bredgade, in the Frederiksstaden district, in front of Designmuseum Denmark. It's the biggest design museum in the country. But first, take a good look at the building itself. This isn't some sleek modern design temple. It's an eighteenth-century rococo building, put up between 1752 and 1757 by the architects Nicolai Eigtved and Laurids de Thurah. And it didn't start out as a museum at all. This was the Royal Frederiks Hospital, the very first hospital in Denmark.