In the town of Åtvidaberg, the midday sun sets off a loud cannon boom.

An abandoned, deteriorating tuberculosis hospital from the turn of the 20th century.

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

A replica of the beloved character's house, modeled after the author's own drawings.

The world's biggest floating museum in Gothenburg, Sweden.

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

Walking through this narrow gorge will make you feel like you've fallen into a fairytale landscape.

This declassified Cold War bunker hosts a large collection of Swedish aircraft.

The place to be if you love vintage Swedish cars.

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

Once the nail factory shut its doors, this Swedish factory town was abandoned, leaving behind a modern ghost town.

A geological wonder that helped fuel myths of trolls and giants.

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

From Coke II to Google Glass, this exhibit features some of the most spectacular commercial flops.

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

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

Sweden's southernmost prehistoric rock art is hidden just outside Gothenburg.

The art critic claiming that "only an ape could have done this" was in fact right.

A semi-sterile mutant birch that became Sweden's national tree.

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