A botched 18th-century canal silenced one of Sweden's most magnificent waterfalls.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

A Gothic-inspired fish market is Gothenburg's best place to find loaves and fishes.

Housing the famous Norwegian ice-defying 19th century polar exploration ship.

Across the Pacific in a raft, a museum dedicated to Thor Heyerdahl's now legendary expedition.

A long-disputed lighthouse built on the wrong side of a Finnish/Swedish island.

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

Early habitat dioramas and home of the elusive gaff, the skvader.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

Now a hotel, this former bank was the site of a robbery that spawned a psychological phenomenon.

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

This wonky bit of historical taxidermy is experiencing a second life online.

This simple roadside art installation ended up sparking a folk art movement and a controversy of international proportions.

For a couple of months each year this Swedish city turns into a festive neon phantasmagoria.

Men in rubber-soled boots serve as your "brakes" on this toboggan ride Hemingway described as "exhilarating."