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

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.

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

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

Street artists transformed this abandoned industrial neighborhood into one of Europe's largest graffiti exhibitions.

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

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

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

This collection of 80 polarizing foods aims to challenge your subjective notions of repulsion.

A man has revenged his true love's betrayal through tears and stone genitalia.

The world's oldest individual clonal tree looks like a wimp despite standing tall for 9,550 years.

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

A golden egg-shaped sauna in the Arctic tundra.

This chimerical bridge/tunnel appears to dead end right into the sea.

A floating underwater hotel, created by a Swedish artist.

An ancient Viking runestone hidden in plain view in Stockholm's old town.

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

Stockholm's deepest subway station is also a stunning ecological wonder.

This Stockholm light tower can be controlled by anyone with a smartphone.

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

The internet as provided by a James Bond villain.

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

Now a hotel, this former bank was the site of a robbery that spawned a psychological phenomenon.

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