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

A golden plaque marks the site of the mysterious unsolved assassination of the former Swedish prime minister.

Swedish skyscraper with a 90° twist.

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

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

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

A colossal strolling Pinocchio that was greeted with more outrage than whimsy.

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

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

The lost American era of gunfighters, bandits, Indians and steam trains is recreated in Sweden.

Not quite the cultural gateway between China and Sweden its designer imagined.

A forest of immensely tall and unusually straight oak trees planted nearly 200 years ago to build naval ships that never came to be.

This cobblestoned medieval-style town was entirely constructed in the 1990s and 2000s.

This little gallery is devoted to one small town's passion for a very special cheese.

One man's fascination with Turkey led to this backyard mini-city.

A memorial to a Swedish hockey player's "encounter" with aliens.

This pyramid in southern Sweden houses the remains of an eccentric nobleman, who spent his life doing whatever he felt like doing.

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

An ornate Thai pavilion in the middle of Sweden.