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After 800 years, Europe's oldest elm tree has met its end.

A pagan tradition of draping trees with rags eerily lives on.

The unexpected mascot of Shetland's capital.

Recreations of a Norse longhouse and boat on Shetland's northernmost inhabited island.

On a remote island, legend has it that a fiddler and his wife were turned to stone.

This picturesque archeological site looks like it was pulled straight from a fantasy novel.

The world's northernmost botanic garden has 25 collections of plants from arctic and alpine regions.

This record shop and unofficial black metal museum is an ode to Oslo's heaviest musical export.

This handsomely carved wooden church is more than 800 years old.

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

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

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

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

The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.