Sankt Petri Kirke

This guide to Sankt Petri Kirke in Copenhagen follows Johann Friedrich Struensee, a German royal physician who became the queen's lover and effectively ruled Denmark for a stretch of the 1770s before his arrest and execution on Gallows Hill before a crowd said to number in the thousands. Workers digging at that old execution site in 1885 turned up scattered human bones, and a 1927 examination found marks a historian judged consistent with a beheading. You're standing above the vaults where Copenhagen's wealthiest German families have been stacked in layers since the 1640s.