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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Swedish farm is the world's only producer of the rare, creamy delicacy that is moose cheese.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Iceland's only steampunk shop imagines a retro-futuristic world that never was.

On an island south of Iceland, a large volcanic rock formation resembles an elephant.