Outside a Viking museum sits a modern-day runestone made by a Swedish runemaster using traditional methods.

A catapult rock from Gotland’s 13th-century civil war is still lodged in Scandinavia's best-preserved medieval city wall.

Winter roadtrips are a little more exciting on this seasonal, slippery expansion of Sweden's national highway system.

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

The world’s largest knitted mitten is displayed in one of Sweden’s smallest Arctic villages.

Every Tuesday, students let off steam by screaming into the night air.

This fantastic cave remained unexplored until 1948 when three schoolboys discovered a hidden entrance.

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

A botched 18th-century canal silenced one of Sweden's most magnificent waterfalls.

18th century opera in its original splendor.

The discovery of an old wall led to the creation of this fascinating museum about the city in the Middle Ages.

This trio of stone spires claims to be the only preserved medieval execution site in Europe.

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

A nightly tradition fills the streets of Flogsta with a collective scream.

A museum dedicated to the history of psychiatric treatment featuring a gallery of art made by patients.

Frequent fliers welcome in this airplane hotel.

Said to be one of Sweden's most haunted places, this vicarage once even attracted a ghost-busting priest.

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

If there is one thing you don't want to be in Sweden during Christmas, it's a Yule Goat.

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.

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

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

Early habitat dioramas and home of the elusive gaff, the skvader.

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