A golden egg-shaped sauna in the Arctic tundra.

The gilded, masterful astronomical clock will calculate time, dates, and planetary positions for thousands of years to come.

A collection of noses tucked inside an art museum reveals how times have changed.

Bored potato-guarding Nazis etched their thoughts onto a brick storage building in Copenhagen's Meatpacking District.

The art museum is decorated with creatively remodeled pre-Nazi swastikas.

The only surviving piece of Copenhagen's 16th-century defensive wall.

Beneath Denmark's Højbro bridge, a bronze merman and his seven sons forever mourn for the mother and wife who left them for land.

An old Danish political institution where members of government can grab a drink off the record.

A little-known cafe in an old copper bridge tower with 360-degree views of the harbor.

Danish observation tower designed to look like a giant beer bottle.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

From Coke II to Google Glass, this exhibit features some of the most spectacular commercial flops.

Home to 200 plaster casts of Scandinavian proboscises.

Sweden's first nuclear reactor, R1, can be visited 25 meters underground.

It's always game time at Stockholm's only museum devoted solely to video games.

A modern, secular take on a traditional Virgin Mary motif.

This fantastic cave remained unexplored until 1948 when three schoolboys discovered a hidden entrance.

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

Stockholm's deepest subway station is also a stunning ecological wonder.

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

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

The Swedish flag over this small naval fort signals that the nation is at peace.

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.

An abandoned, deteriorating tuberculosis hospital from the turn of the 20th century.