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

This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.

A lovingly curated curio shop in which the taxidermy wear newspaper party hats, and peanut shells are spread across every surface.

A serpentine highway twists and turns over the treacherous Norwegian Sea.

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

This one-room museum is dedicated to Norwegian history and jokes.

The world's northernmost ice hotel.

The convergence of two currents makes this a surprisingly pleasant getaway in the Arctic Circle.

World's strongest whirlpool.

According to the locals, the sands of this secluded Norway beach are infused with gemstone particles.

A 200-year-old collection of medical paraphernalia in a historic house.

This Danish rock field is actually a sprawling ancient cemetery holding the bodies of 700 Vikings.

This Danish castle is supposedly haunted by a woman too independent to not be a witch.

The northernmost point in Denmark is a turbulent sandbar created by two clashing seas.

Despite the groans of archaeologists, this astounding groups of Bronze Age petroglyphs have been painted red for tourists.

An artist's mausoleum with a haunting echo.

An intricately carved Viking church overlooks a glistening fjord.

Norway's chilly all ice-instrument festival.

St George's Leprosy Museum depicts the gruesome afflictions of those suffering from the disease.

Walk behind a 50-meter-high waterfall.

The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.

Walk 2,300 feet above the ground on the "Troll's Tongue."

This giant boulder is pinched over a 1000-meter abyss by two mountains.

This "preacher's pulpit" once used for pagan ritual, is home to a new, and dangerous ritual.