Outside a Viking museum sits a modern-day runestone made by a Swedish runemaster using traditional methods.

A king's bloodstained shirt is among the gruesome collection of artifacts displayed below Stockholm's Royal Palace.

A peat bog in southern Sweden provides a cozy and photogenic home for junked Volvos, Saabs, and the occasional American muscle car.

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

The suspected burial mound of legendary Viking Björn Ironside.

This encrypted monolith protected a secret of Norse mythology by hiding in a church wall for over a millennium.

An otherworldly, fossil-rich cobble beach holds Viking graves, cairns, and other remains.

Walking through this narrow gorge will make you feel like you've fallen into a fairytale landscape.

This giant subway sculpture celebrates the fruit that inspired the theory of gravity.

No one knows who's responsible for decorating this tunnel with stuffed animals, but the people love it enough to protest their removal.

One of the world's few mounted blue whales, its jaws are hinged open allowing visitors to descend into a lounge.

According to legend, this boat-shaped henge is built over the grave of a mythic king.

A Japanese video game arcade hides in the back of a Swedish pool hall.

This grisly exhibit houses skeletons and weapons from a devastating 14th-century clash.

The discovery of an old wall led to the creation of this fascinating museum about the city in the Middle Ages.

The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.

Crooked windswept pines give this old forest an enchanted and magical look.

Street artists transformed this abandoned industrial neighborhood into one of Europe's largest graffiti exhibitions.

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

An ancient Viking runestone hidden in plain view in Stockholm's old town.

This Stockholm light tower can be controlled by anyone with a smartphone.

The world's largest model of our planetary system.

A rare surviving Victorian greenhouse designed specifically to house giant water lilies.