Helsinki, Finland
Pronssikautinen Hauta
One of the oldest structures in Helsinki is this burrow grave that dates back to the Bronze Age.
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Helsinki, Finland
One of the oldest structures in Helsinki is this burrow grave that dates back to the Bronze Age.
Helsinki, Finland
This church also serves as a lighthouse complete with a beacon.
Helsinki, Finland
The door to the museum holds a unique artifact from the Finnish Civil War.
Helsinki, Finland
These enormous, stern-faced statues greet visitors with lanterns, and sometimes costumes.
Helsinki, Finland
This building featuring Brutalist architecture has a rich media production history.
Helsinki, Finland
Finland's oldest astronomical observatory once played a crucial role in seafaring and timekeeping.
Helsinki, Finland
This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.
Helsinki, Finland
The tiny, studious rodents greet visitors to the National Archives of Finland.
Helsinki, Finland
An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.
Helsinki, Finland
This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.
Helsinki, Finland
A lovingly curated curio shop in which the taxidermy wear newspaper party hats, and peanut shells are spread across every surface.
Helsinki, Finland
Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.
Helsinki, Finland
A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.
Malmö, Sweden
Swedish mice can dine at the Nuts of Life restaurant or take a date to the amousement park.
Stockholm, Sweden
Not far from where one of the most famous Swedes of all time is buried, an infamous man was put to rest.
Stockholm, Sweden
Celebrating the Swedish ship used in the first Arctic expedition to navigate through the Northeast Passage.
Stockholm, Sweden
The site of Stockholm's last public execution.
Stockholm, Sweden
On Nobel Street, a miniature statue of Alfred Nobel.
Stockholm, Sweden
Absolutely no saxophones in the library.
Skarpnäcks Gård, Sweden
This hole formed by a glacier is the largest and best-preserved of its kind in Stockholm.
Stockholm, Sweden
The composer known as the "Swedish Mozart" arranged to be buried in an unusual spot.
Stockholm, Sweden
Despite dreams of constructing this fairytale mansion, Albert Gotthard Nestor Cedergren never saw its completion.
Stockholm, Sweden
A heated statue pays tribute to one of Sweden's great actresses.
Stockholm, Sweden
Part of an abandoned19th-century fortress hides in plain sight inside a modern office building.