A butcher shop in Minneapolis has all the meats and cheeses you’d expect from any of its kind—except that all the products are vegan.

This statue and park honor the Swedish chemist Jacob Berzelius, one of the founders of modern chemistry.

A miniature model of the iconic Stockholm department store.

The scars of a remarkably organized public protest to save 13 elm trees are still visible in this Stockholm park.

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

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

The dome-shaped reservoir of this old water tower produces unique acoustic effects.

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

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

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

This roundabout was renamed in honor of the Swedish king's royal fender-bender.

Stockholm's tiniest statue is of a small boy looking at the Moon.

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.

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

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

These mysterious circular formations are actually remnants of 19th century gristmills.

Rocks carved with biblical passages in the 1800s.

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

Enigmatic bug-like sculptures mystify drivers along a Swedish highway.

This poignant sculpture of a gnarled weapon is a symbol of non-violence.

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

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

The painter of "The Scream" is laid to rest under a stoic bust of himself in the humble corner of an Oslo cemetery.