A plaque marks the house in Stockholm where the French philosopher René Descartes lived up until his death.

The single richest source of elemental discoveries in the world.

The world's oldest individual clonal tree looks like a wimp despite standing tall for 9,550 years.

A floating underwater hotel, created by a Swedish artist.

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

When this 18th-century observatory's meridian was moved, it set Sweden's time back by 0.04 seconds.

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

Located in an old church, this brewery produces a different kind of holy water.

Stockholm's tiniest statue is of a small boy looking at the Moon.

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

Micro-nation based around a nine-story high illegally built tower.

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.

A Swedish farm is the world's only producer of the rare, creamy delicacy that is moose cheese.

This homeless brass fox tugs at your heartstrings from the foot of a Stockholm bridge.

A man has revenged his true love's betrayal through tears and stone genitalia.

Eat a Nobel banquet from any year in the basement of Stockholm's City Hall.

A golden egg-shaped sauna in the Arctic tundra.

Stockholm's narrowest alley is barely over two feet wide.

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

The remains of Alfred Nobel's first nitroglycerine factory can still be found on the shores of a Swedish bay.

The internet as provided by a James Bond villain.

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.