Rättvik, Sweden
Dalhalla
The unique design of this former quarry provides ideal acoustics for concerts.
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Rättvik, Sweden
The unique design of this former quarry provides ideal acoustics for concerts.
Sweden
This oak has seen Vikings, the Black Death, and world wars pass but refuses to give up.
Rättvik V, Sweden
An oil drilling mistake created this fountain that has been spraying water for over 150 years.
Sveg, Sweden
This massive Trojan ursine was built to be a new tourist symbol for a small Swedish town.
Härjedalen, Sweden
This statue, deep in a Swedish forest, is all alone, just like the renowned recluse would have wanted.
Älvdalen S, Sweden
The world's oldest individual clonal tree looks like a wimp despite standing tall for 9,550 years.
Älvdalen S, Sweden
Believed to be the country's tallest waterfall, the Njupeskär is actually much smaller.
Älvdalen N, Sweden
Gravity seems to fail at this intriguing Swedish attraction.
Älvdalen N, Sweden
This tiny Swedish troll protects the land and all who wander within it.
Älvdalen N, Sweden
An unassuming plaque with a laminated poster shows the names of people who completed one of the most grueling journeys in Sweden.
Sala, Sweden
Sweden’s legendary mine with wildly deep tunnels.
Mölndal, Sweden
Once the center of power for the region's various factories.
Gothenburg, Sweden
This mysterious sign claims an American astronomer haunts the building—but is it true?
Mjölby, Sweden
This traffic circle in a small Swedish town is adorned with a statue of a giant potato.
Gothenburg, Sweden
Sweden's largest remaining gantry crane is a relic of Gothenburg's industrial past.
London, England
This sprawling, Brutalist estate feels like a city within a city.
Malmö, Sweden
This cone-shaped bomb shelter, modeled on German design, is a rare WWII relic that never saw use but still looms over the harbor.
Prague, Czechia
Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.
Birka, Sweden
Sweden's first Viking city is also the site of thousands of burial mounds.
Borås, Sweden
A colossal strolling Pinocchio that was greeted with more outrage than whimsy.
Helsingborg, Sweden
These whimsical rabbit figures are not as innocent as they might look.
Raus, Sweden
Legend has it that this church faced a troll problem, leading to the affixing of a stone face of Satan above the entrance to deter further encounters.
Malmö, Sweden
This bronze marker acknowledges an embarrassing royal blunder.
Malmö, Sweden
These waste baskets play a few risque messages to discourage littering.