This serene wooded hilltop has a dark history as the climactic point of the Swedish witch trials.

The wilderness of northern Sweden is full of shelters to protect people from sounding rockets returning from space.

Known locally as the Jungfrutornet, this Medieval tower hides a dark legend.

The charming storybook building now houses a small police museum.

A memorial to a Swedish hockey player's "encounter" with aliens.

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

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.

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

An otherworldly, fossil-rich cobble beach holds Viking graves, cairns, and other remains.

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

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

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

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

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

One Portuguese poet described this cape, the westernmost point in mainland Europe, as "where the land ends and the sea begins."

The two massive guns that defended Cartagena Bay.

An enchanting landscape of ancient sandstone structures eroded into otherworldly shapes.

A statue of a boy looks up at where the famous rival to the Leaning Tower of Pisa once stood.

This massive fiberglass Gulliver turns every visitor into a Lilliputian.

This interactive museum highlights the history and philosophy of one of the world's most difficult sailing races.

Haunted tuberculosis hospital built by the patients.

The mass grave of the 27 victims of the "Vampire of Hanover."

The legendary bathing site of a Moorish queen is actually part of a Roman fish farm.