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

This legendary dessert was served to Nobel laureates for decades.

A prehistoric geological oddity tucked behind Stockholm's natural history museum.

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

Known locally as the Jungfrutornet, this Medieval tower hides a dark legend.

The apartment where Pippi Longstocking came to life.

Sweden's largest optical telescope sits on a rooftop in Stockholm.

Sound travels strangely in this underground whispering gallery.

This statue and park honor the Swedish chemist Jacob Berzelius, one of the founders of modern chemistry.

The final resting place of the man whose name has become synonymous with greatness.

Although rarely used, there is still a hidden room for the royal family at the Stockholm central station.

A Japanese video game arcade hides in the back of a Swedish pool hall.

According to legend, this structure was inspired by the Tower of Babel and built in a 19th-century industrialist's yard so he could walk his dogs without leaving home.

An oil drilling mistake created this fountain that has been spraying water for over 150 years.

A heated statue pays tribute to one of Sweden's great actresses.

This small statue hints at the incorrect origins of the lush landscape park surrounding it.

Stone carvings record the Norse myth of Sigurd, providing a glimpse into Scandinavia's transition from paganism to Christianity.

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

The skeletal remains of the famous hominid "Lucy" were found at this spot.

This enormous statue of the Virgin of Guadalupe has become one of the world's most recent Catholic pilgrimage sites.

These colonial murals are a fascinating hybrid of Spanish and Indigenous aesthetics.

The official Presidential Residence of Los Pinos became an emblem of Mexico's opulence and presidential corruption.

Meant to be one of the most extravagant hotels in the world, now an eerie, abandoned architectural gem in Mexico City.

A skeleton without arms watches over the side door of one of the most beautiful baroque temples in Mexico.