Havneholmen Metro Station in Copenhagen, Denmark

Is Alton, Illinois America’s Most Haunted Small Town? 4 days ago 14 Real Places That Haunt the Pages of Literature 6 days ago A station imagined at the speed of light, where familiar fixtures slip out of place. Step onto the platform at Copenhagen's Havneholmen metro station, which opened in 2024, and something is not quite right: a bench hangs from the ceiling, a trash can juts sideways from a wall, an information screen tilts out at an odd angle, and the clocks overhead seem to be running on their own schedule. The disorientation is by design.

It's the work of the Danish artist group Superflex, who reimagined the space as though the metro trains had been sped up to travel at the speed of light. At that speed, the artists reasoned, gravity and the shape of the room itself would shift, carrying the benches and signage along with them. The metro operator gave the artists an unusually free hand.

As one Superflex member put it, they were told to "just go for it," and in places the client turned out to be wilder than the artists themselves. The distorted fixtures are paired with working versions in their usual locations, so the station remains fully functional despite the disarray. Passengers can still check the time and see when the next train arrives, even as clocks, signs, and benches appear to have wandered off course.

Get more unusual and extraordinary places each week with the Atlas Obscura Places newsletter. Your newsletter subscriptions with us are subject to Atlas Obscura's Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. Havneholmen station is right next to the Fisketorvet shopping mall, one stop from Copenhagen Central Station on the blue line (M4), which runs around the clock.

Visitors are supposed to have a valid ticket to enter the platform. Those who'd rather skip it can still catch a glimpse of the installation by looking down between the escalators from the top of the station. The Underground railway station and its Cubist/Art Deco statue are so evocative of 1920s/30s London that one almost expects to see Poirot on the stairs.

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