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

A golden egg-shaped sauna in the Arctic tundra.

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

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

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

This encrypted monolith protected a secret of Norse mythology by hiding in a church wall for over a millennium.

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

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

The library's graceful rotunda is like a bibliophile's temple.

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

The world's largest model of our planetary system.

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

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

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

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

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

An exhibition of preserved locomotives housed in a 1950s depot shows the history of Denmark's railway.

From buck blood to Theriak miracle tonic, this collection of Renaissance chemist's gear look's like a wizard's pantry.

A failed attempt to control drifting sands yielded a gnarled sylvan wonderland.

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

Nordic giants resurrected from the sea and restored to their former greatness.

Mounds, rune stones, and a 1,000-year-old church, left behind by Denmark's first two kings.

This secret collection of the strange and occult was rediscovered in a forgotten room of an old house.

This ultra-modern wooden boardwalk turns the ocean into a swimming pool.