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Caves famous for the dragon-slaying saint who lived there.

This amazing pedestrian suspension bridge in the Swiss Alps would give Indiana Jones nightmares.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

A Bronze Age stone ship said to be the grave of the mythical founder of Gotland.

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

This grisly exhibit houses skeletons and weapons from a devastating 14th-century clash.

The single richest source of elemental discoveries in the world.

This encrypted monolith protected a secret of Norse mythology by hiding in a church wall for over a millennium.

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

The world's oldest individual clonal tree looks like a wimp despite standing tall for 9,550 years.

A rare surviving Victorian greenhouse designed specifically to house giant water lilies.

A golden egg-shaped sauna in the Arctic tundra.

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

This homeless brass fox tugs at your heartstrings from the foot of a Stockholm bridge.

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

Sweden's first nuclear reactor, R1, can be visited 25 meters underground.

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

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.

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

Bring your hiking shoes, wool socks, and thermal underwear for a stay in these cozy forest huts.

Stockholm's deepest subway station is also a stunning ecological wonder.