These miniature works of art are hiding in plain sight on buildings around the city.

This castle ruin in the middle of nowhere is a gem for wildlife enthusiasts.

A catapult rock from Gotland’s 13th-century civil war is still lodged in Scandinavia's best-preserved medieval city wall.

Ancient stone graves shaped like ships provided a Viking-like burial to carry the dead to the afterlife.

His body was found mysteriously preserved in a Swedish mine over 40 years after his initial disappearance.

This fantastic cave remained unexplored until 1948 when three schoolboys discovered a hidden entrance.

Not quite the cultural gateway between China and Sweden its designer imagined.

Few would expect the world's oldest preserved oil refinery to be found in Sweden.

This massive Trojan ursine was built to be a new tourist symbol for a small Swedish town.

Winter roadtrips are a little more exciting on this seasonal, slippery expansion of Sweden's national highway system.

A Gothic-inspired fish market is Gothenburg's best place to find loaves and fishes.

The trailblazing Swedish businesswoman created a beloved minty candy called polkagris.

A steel paper plane is all that remains of a crashed aircraft that caused an amazingly small amount of damage.

This little gallery is devoted to one small town's passion for a very special cheese.

A golden plaque marks the site of the mysterious unsolved assassination of the former Swedish prime minister.

These mysterious circular formations are actually remnants of 19th century gristmills.

The charming storybook building now houses a small police museum.

A memorial to a Swedish hockey player's "encounter" with aliens.

The dome-shaped reservoir of this old water tower produces unique acoustic effects.

This giant crucifix is like U2's Joshua Tree for Swedish death metal fans.

A long-disputed lighthouse built on the wrong side of a Finnish/Swedish island.

A forest of immensely tall and unusually straight oak trees planted nearly 200 years ago to build naval ships that never came to be.

The scars of a remarkably organized public protest to save 13 elm trees are still visible in this Stockholm park.

This cobblestoned medieval-style town was entirely constructed in the 1990s and 2000s.