A plaque marks the house in Stockholm where the French philosopher René Descartes lived up until his death.

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

This small town's local tradition is to create the world's tallest ice pillar.

This statue, deep in a Swedish forest, is all alone, just like the renowned recluse would have wanted.

Ancient burial grounds of the wealthy.

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

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

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

A golden egg-shaped sauna in the Arctic tundra.

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

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

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

Gargantuan pots of slow-cooked lamb, noodles, and red wine feed everyone at a Mallorcan harvest festival.

The pharmacy's retro ice cream mixer is one of the last of its kind.

This legendary dessert was served to Nobel laureates for decades.

When Azorean green tea meets volcanic hot springs water, a luminous brew is born.

This cliff-face port is considered a masterpiece of mining engineering.

This breathtaking monastery was established by Saint Benedict himself 1,500 years ago.

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

A climbing route in the mountains of Italy’s Dolomites, built for soldiers during World War I.

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.

One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

A line of abandoned, alien-like fortresses dot the mountains of North Italy.