One of Scandinavia's largest mosaics pays tribute to Danish art and science luminaries.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Tiring of digging out the door to this church for every service, it was eventually abandoned to the sands.

The northernmost point in Denmark is a turbulent sandbar created by two clashing seas.

The shiny silver little brother to Copenhagen's Little Mermaid statue.

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Take a schvitz just like an infamous Soviet dictator while his unblinking eye looks on.

This innocuous-looking button may have been used to assassinate a king.

A Very Low Frequency transmitter you can tune in on your PC.

Archaeologists are still unraveling the secrets of the brutal massacre that wiped out this ancient fort.

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

A catapult rock from Gotland’s 13th-century civil war is still lodged in Scandinavia's best-preserved medieval city wall.

Visit the home of Sweden's beloved fictional character, Pippi Longstocking.

Sweden's first Viking city is also the site of thousands of burial mounds.

18th century opera in its original splendor.

Outside a Viking museum sits a modern-day runestone made by a Swedish runemaster using traditional methods.

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

A king's bloodstained shirt is among the gruesome collection of artifacts displayed below Stockholm's Royal Palace.

A 130-year-old urinal is the oldest of Stockholm and perhaps all of Sweden.

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

This small museum nestled inside a souvenir shop is dedicated to Sweden's most well-known toy.

Several cannonballs of mysterious origins decorate two buildings in Stortoget's main square.

This centuries-old rooster survived a devastating fire.

Dine on food tied to Viking history and legend at this subterranean Stockholm spot.