This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

The city that saw the birth of Sweden is now home to an impressive collection of work from its favorite artist.

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

A Gothic-inspired fish market is Gothenburg's best place to find loaves and fishes.

The scars of a remarkably organized public protest to save 13 elm trees are still visible in this Stockholm park.

18th century opera in its original splendor.

Now a hotel, this former bank was the site of a robbery that spawned a psychological phenomenon.

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

The library's graceful rotunda is like a bibliophile's temple.

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

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

This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

Estonia's largest creative city is a vibrant bohemian hub located within a former industrial complex.

An abandoned textile factory on the "island of crows" was home to Estonia's first workers' strike.

Disused seaplane hangar gets a second life as the jaw-dropping home of Estonia's museum of maritime history.

This Soviet-era "closed town" was a top secret uranium producer often left off of maps.