20-foot tall lamp mumbles Swedish to celebrate the holidays.

A tombstone on the grounds of the royal castle marks the burial site of a Swedish king's beloved dog.

Archaeologists are still unraveling the secrets of the brutal massacre that wiped out this ancient fort.

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

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

This collection of 80 polarizing foods aims to challenge your subjective notions of repulsion.

A series of modernist treehouse hotel rooms grace the outskirts of an Arctic forest.

A golden egg-shaped sauna in the Arctic tundra.

Sweden's oldest street has not changed for nearly a millennium.

This building, previously used as a courthouse, has an unusual geological feature in its basement.

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

The world's only above water sand volcano, believed to once be the bathtub of a priest.

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

Iron Age grave stones and Viking burials, a short drive from Gothenburg.

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

This runestone once destroyed by an explosion has been painstakingly reassembled to save its history.

Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam is a treasure trove of rare flora.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

A cableway for car transport.

A unique hotel for the artistic soul.

Climb around the high waterfalls on series of iron ladders and bridges within the wildest gorge in the Slovak Paradise.

Enormous sandstone towers loom within a Czech forest.

A collection of decorative eggs to admire in the off-season.

Small museum dedicated to one of the founding fathers of modern astronautics.