Sweden

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Treehotel

Series of treehouse hotel rooms on the outskirts of an Arctic forest

Opened in July 2010, Treehotel was created to get visitors to reconnect with nature. Offering eco-friendly quarters 15 feet off the ground, each room offers stunning views of the forest and... »

Commercial Curiosities, Odd Accommodations, Architectural Oddities, Outsider Architecture | Edited by atimian and HJHausman

Turning Torso

Swedish skyscraper with a 90° twist

Turning Torso is the tallest skyscraper in Sweden, and the second highest residential building in Europe. Situated in Malmö, Sweden the tower reaches a height of 623 feet making it the tallest... »

Architectural Oddities | Edited by Dampo and atimian

Slottsskogen pacifier tree

There are no crying babies in this neck of the woods

In central Gothenburg, you will find Slottsskogen, a 137 hectare park. By the 1880s, the Swedish city had grown to encompass the forest, and merchant August Kobb took initiative to create the... »

Outsider Architecture | Edited by Dampo and Dylan

Jumbo Stay

Frequent fliers welcome in this airplane hotel

It's hard to imagine wanting to book a room at the Jumbo Stay. If you're arriving from Stockholm by boat, plane or train, few people would want to pile back onto a 747 airplane for a restful... »

Odd Accommodations | Edited by Dampo and atimian

Drottningholms Slottsteater

18th century opera in its original splendor

Drottningholms Slottsteater, or the Royal Theater of Drottningholm, was built in 1766 and is one of the oldest preserved opera houses in the world. But it's not just a relic collecting dust, or an... »

Musical Wonders, Retro-Tech | Edited by atimian

Facebook's Arctic Circle Data Center

The first overseas server for Facebook in Sweden's tundra

Every click of every one of Facebook's 800 million users gets saved. But it doesn't get saved on your iPhone, or on your trusty PC. Instead, these billions of pieces of information get stored on... »

Unique Collections, Repositories of Knowledge | Edited by atimian

Pionen Data Center

The internet as provided by a James Bond villain

Bahnhof is one of Sweden's largest internet service providers. When CEO Jon Karlung secured a former nuclear bunker below 100 feet of Stockholm bedrock as the site for a data center, he thought it... »

Architectural Oddities, Outsider Architecture, Subterranean Sites | Edited by tralfamadore, wythe and others

Lövestad Carved Statues

Rocks carved with biblical passages in the 1800s

Located inside of and in the gardens surrounding the Hembygdsmuseum in Lovestad, a locality situated in Sjobo Municipality in Sweden, a blue collar worker once decided it wise to carve a series of... »

Unusual Monuments, Strange Statues | Edited by Horza and Nicholas Jackson

Flygbussarna

Sculpture of a bus made from wrecked passenger cars

Every single day, thousands of Swedes drive to the airport in their cars, spewing harmful carbon dioxide into the air and contributing to global warming. In an effort to convince them that they... »

Unusual Monuments, Strange Statues | Edited by Nicholas Jackson

Gotland

Largest island in the Baltic Sea experiences such idyllic weather that roses bloom in the middle of December

Gotland, also called the Island of Roses because of its idyllic climate, is temperate enough for roses to bloom in the middle of December. It's not just the climate and the flowers that draw in... »

Architectural Oddities, Incredible Ruins | Edited by canuck and Nicholas Jackson