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

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

Said to be one of Sweden's most haunted places, this vicarage once even attracted a ghost-busting priest.

The single richest source of elemental discoveries in the world.

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

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

This grisly exhibit houses skeletons and weapons from a devastating 14th-century clash.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Crooked windswept pines give this old forest an enchanted and magical look.

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

A statue that would be at home in Rome can instead be found in the heart of Norway's oldest city.

Thousands of birds nest in the cliffs while arctic foxes prowl below.

Once the scene of a young boy's home in revolt, this Norwegian island is now home to the world's first "ecological" prison.

This one-room museum is dedicated to Norwegian history and jokes.

Mysterious man-made rock piles form an ancient cemetery on this rocky beach in Norway.

Art becomes an enchanting part of the environment at this wooded sculpture park.

The last fully functional fortress of Germany's World War II Atlantikwall.

Norway's national monument to fallen seamen.

The world's largest moose statue towers above the highway between Oslo and Trondheim.