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

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

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

Dine on food tied to Viking history and legend at this subterranean Stockholm spot.

A small island dotted with old, historic Finnish buildings.

A lumberjack in Finnish Lapland did not want to cut down his Arctic pines, so he offered them up to be adopted by nature-lovers.

This medieval Estonian tower provides access to a series of tunnels that have been home to soldiers, punks, and fine art.

An underground nightclub helped spark a "Singing Revolution."

A secluded art gallery hidden within the cellars beneath Tallinn’s medieval monastery.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.