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

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

No one knows who's responsible for decorating this tunnel with stuffed animals, but the people love it enough to protest their removal.

Stockholm's narrowest alley is barely over two feet wide.

This grisly exhibit houses skeletons and weapons from a devastating 14th-century clash.

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

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

A floating underwater hotel, created by a Swedish artist.

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

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

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

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

A rare surviving Victorian greenhouse designed specifically to house giant water lilies.

Dine on food tied to Viking history and legend at this subterranean Stockholm spot.

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

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