Outside a Viking museum sits a modern-day runestone made by a Swedish runemaster using traditional methods.

What looks like a birch tree smushed between two pieces of glass often confounds commuters.

The scars of a remarkably organized public protest to save 13 elm trees are still visible in this Stockholm park.

This gem from the industrial age helps visitors and residents alike traverse hilly Stockholm.

A man has revenged his true love's betrayal through tears and stone genitalia.

Stockholm's tiniest statue is of a small boy looking at the Moon.

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.

Finland's oldest astronomical observatory once played a crucial role in seafaring and timekeeping.

Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.

An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.

The oldest church in the Estonian capital is home to over 100 fantastical cemetery coats-of-arms.

Estonia's largest creative city is a vibrant bohemian hub located within a former industrial complex.

The Guardian of Tallinn.

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

This monument to one of the largest science fiction games of all time bears the names of hundreds of thousands of players.

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

Iceland's "Smoky Valley" is a beautiful river that is shrouded in a constant cover of steam clouds.

This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.

This beautiful, historic church looks like something out of a simpler past.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

$10,000 won in a poker game in 1884 allowed James Draughon to build this intriguing home.

Roadside attraction with more than 1,000 stuffed and mounted animal skins displayed in simulated natural habitats with hand-painted backdrops.