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 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

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

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, 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

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

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

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

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, 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