A 12th-century church with a medieval fresco and an intriguing “Greek runestone.”

A rare surviving Victorian greenhouse designed specifically to house giant water lilies.

The ruins of a monastery where Saint Bridget of Sweden had her revelations recorded.

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

The concrete skeletons of an abandoned Swedish town hide among the trees.

Despite dreams of constructing this fairytale mansion, Albert Gotthard Nestor Cedergren never saw its completion.

A Swedish phone box converted into an informal village library.

Sweden's oldest street has not changed for nearly a millennium.

Believed to be the country's tallest waterfall, the Njupeskär is actually much smaller.

A medieval church that contains murals from famed artist Albertus Pictor.

The 19th-century home of Count and Countess von Hallwyl is now a museum.

This spa shower is an interactive art piece that reflects the feeling of Scandinavian seasons.

A residential service road transformed into a menagerie of larger-than-life paintings of iconic Arctic wildlife.

The eccentricities of a former lord include painted pigeons of his manor house, a series of pointless plaques, and a folly built simply to peeve the public.

This colorful historic site tells the story of Icelandic poetry and community in Central Alberta.

A railway, a waterway, and a roadway all in one, suspended over a rushing river.

These waste baskets play a few risque messages to discourage littering.

At this bohemian accommodation, guests who dream of joining the circus can spend the night in themed wagons.

This Scandinavian island is the site of the first modern observatory.

Bohol's mysterious brown hills.

Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.

From the 1940 Ford Coupe that started it all 50 years ago, this collection of over 150 classic vehicles celebrates the spirit and history of American car craft.

Take a stroll through this centuries-old tunnel of enormous moss-hung evergreens, nestled among the grounds of America’s first public sculpture garden.

Eat and drink at a pub older than the Magna Carta