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

Locals perched on icy thrones brave frigid temperatures during this bizarre winter tradition.

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

The trailblazing Swedish businesswoman created a beloved minty candy called polkagris.

Once the nail factory shut its doors, this Swedish factory town was abandoned, leaving behind a modern ghost town.

The design of this beautifully crafted building was inspired by Norwegian glaciers.

Few would expect the world's oldest preserved oil refinery to be found in Sweden.

Although rarely used, there is still a hidden room for the royal family at the Stockholm central station.

This trio of bronze giants celebrate the influential trip to Britain that led to Botswana's independence.

These naturally balancing rocks were pictured on every Zimbabwean banknote, up to the 100 trillion-dollar note.

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.

Spanning over 10,000 square miles, this ancient salt pan is one of the largest on the planet.

No one knows the meaning behind this giant sculpture of a nude woman with a fork riding a rooster in Havana.

An eclectic sculpture park rises atop a giant pile of ashes in Sweden.

A Swedish town came up with an out-of-the-box way to eliminate the bloodthirsty insects.

A little-known sculpture park of contemporary environmental art in a Lapland forest.

This little gallery is devoted to one small town's passion for a very special cheese.

The first overseas server for Facebook in Sweden's tundra.

A series of modernist treehouse hotel rooms grace the outskirts of an Arctic forest.

A forest of immensely tall and unusually straight oak trees planted nearly 200 years ago to build naval ships that never came to be.

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

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

A golden plaque marks the site of the mysterious unsolved assassination of the former Swedish prime minister.

This giant crucifix is like U2's Joshua Tree for Swedish death metal fans.