This chimerical bridge/tunnel appears to dead end right into the sea.

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

The second oldest anatomical theater is housed in a museum of curiosities.

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

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

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

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

Bring your hiking shoes, wool socks, and thermal underwear for a stay in these cozy forest huts.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

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

A landscape decorated with enormous skull sculptures.

Eccentric sculpture garden brings Basque mythology to life.

This Navarrese cave's history of witchcraft and pagan ritual is not just embraced, but recreated each year.

An archeological treasure trove stumbled upon by a couple of children.

A living art gallery painted on a canvas of Monterey pine trees.

Hundreds of stone stairs and a winding medieval bridge connect this haunting Spanish island to the mainland.

Giant topiary dog once played a role in a terrorist bomb plot.

12th-century holy complex shares land with a natural park full of heavenly waterfalls and raptors.

One of the few remaining ancient aqueducts described by Frontinus as 'the most solemn testimony of the Empire.'

The oldest restaurant in the world is this old-world Spanish eatery, still known for its suckling pig.

Over two centuries old and counting, Madrid's massive botanical garden contains one of Europe's only desert environments.

Madrid's romantically ornate crystal palace has been offering shelter to plants and art for over a century.

Spain's stunning solar energy plant.

The effect of this ancient form of image projection situated atop an 11th century Moorish palace is thrilling.