Sweden 🇸🇪

103 Places

Helsingborg, Sweden

Museum of Failure

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

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Boden N, Sweden

Treehotel

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

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Stockholm, Sweden

Sweden Solar System

The world's largest model of our planetary system.

Stockholm, Sweden

Storkyrkobadet

A hidden bathhouse in one of Stockholm's oldest and busiest neighborhoods is open to anyone who can find it.

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Stockholm, Sweden

Vasa Museum

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

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Stockholm, Sweden

R1 Nuclear Reactor

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

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Icehotel

The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.

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Stockholm, Sweden

Colour by Numbers

This Stockholm light tower can be controlled by anyone with a smartphone.

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Stockholm, Sweden

Skansen Open Air Museum

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

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Stockholm, Sweden

Birthplace of the Stockholm Syndrome

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

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Skinnskatteberg, Sweden

STF Kolarbyn Eco Lodges

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

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Höganäs, Sweden

Nimis in Ladonia

Micro-nation based around a nine-story high illegally built tower.

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Stockholm, Sweden

Rag and Bone

This homeless brass fox tugs at your heartstrings from the foot of a Stockholm bridge.

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Västerås, Sweden

Utter Inn

A floating underwater hotel, created by a Swedish artist.

Stockholm, Sweden

Nobels spränggropar (Nobel's Blasting Bunkers)

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

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Älvdalen S, Sweden

Old Tjikko

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

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Stockholm, Sweden

Solar Egg

A golden egg-shaped sauna in the Arctic tundra.

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Øresund Bridge

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

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Gotland

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

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Borgholm, Sweden

Trollskogen (The Troll Forest)

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

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Disgusting Food Museum

This collection of 80 polarizing foods aims to challenge your subjective notions of repulsion.

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Gothenburg, Sweden

Malm Whale

One of the world's few mounted blue whales, its jaws are hinged open allowing visitors to descend into a lounge.

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Stockholm, Sweden

Biologiska Museet

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

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Uppsala, Sweden

Gustavianum Museum

The second oldest anatomical theater is housed in a museum of curiosities.

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Ales Stenar

According to legend, this boat-shaped henge is built over the grave of a mythic king.

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Kungsbacka, Sweden

Li Grave Stones

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

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Varberg, Sweden

Bexell's Talking Stones

Hundreds of mossy stones engraved with bits of philosophy, literature and random musings.

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Sala Silver Mine Hotel Suite

This luxury hotel suite is located deep in the bowels of an old mine.

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Gävlebocken

If there is one thing you don't want to be in Sweden during Christmas, it's a Yule Goat.

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Tingsryd SV, Sweden

Kyrkö Car Cemetery

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

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Stockholm, Sweden

Snösätra Wall of Fame

Street artists transformed this abandoned industrial neighborhood into one of Europe's largest graffiti exhibitions.

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Stockholm, Sweden

Ribbinska Huset

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.

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Turning Torso

Swedish skyscraper with a 90° twist.

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Årjäng SV, Sweden

Båstnäs Car Cemetery

This Swedish automobile graveyard is a beautiful gallery of decay, but woe be to any who would steal a souvenir.

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Stockholm, Sweden

Järnpojke

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

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Strängnäs, Sweden

The Lion of Gripsholm Castle

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

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Uppsala, Sweden

The Flogsta Scream

A nightly tradition fills the streets of Flogsta with a collective scream.

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Eskilstuna, Sweden

Sigurdsristningen (Sigurd Carving)

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

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Stockholm, Sweden

Ytterby Mine

The single richest source of elemental discoveries in the world.

Stockholm, Sweden

Jumbo Stay

Frequent fliers welcome in this airplane hotel.

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Galgberget Gallows

This trio of stone spires claims to be the only preserved medieval execution site in Europe.

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Kneippen, Sweden

Villa Villekulla

Visit the home of Sweden's beloved fictional character, Pippi Longstocking.

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Säter Museum of Mental Health

A museum dedicated to the history of psychiatric treatment featuring a gallery of art made by patients.

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Royal Waiting Hall

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

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Horologium mirabile Lundense

This Swedish astronomical clock was in storage for almost a century before its glorious workings were put on display once more.

On the Way

Enigmatic bug-like sculptures mystify drivers along a Swedish highway.

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Åtvidaberg, Sweden

Åtvidaberg Sun Cannon

In the town of Åtvidaberg, the midday sun sets off a loud cannon boom.

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Kvarntorp, Sweden

A Pile of Art

An eclectic sculpture park rises atop a giant pile of ashes in Sweden.

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