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A plaque marks the house in Stockholm where the French philosopher René Descartes lived up until his death.

A peat bog in southern Sweden provides a cozy and photogenic home for junked Volvos, Saabs, and the occasional American muscle car.

Frequent fliers welcome in this airplane hotel.

"Only the dead get off at Kymlinge."

A Japanese video game arcade hides in the back of a Swedish pool hall.

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

One of the world's few mounted blue whales, its jaws are hinged open allowing visitors to descend into a lounge.

A floating underwater hotel, created by a Swedish artist.

A man has revenged his true love's betrayal through tears and stone genitalia.

A golden egg-shaped sauna in the Arctic tundra.

This collection of 80 polarizing foods aims to challenge your subjective notions of repulsion.

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

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

The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.

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

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

A hidden bathhouse in one of Stockholm's oldest and busiest neighborhoods is open to anyone who can find it.

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

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

This collection of unique liquids allows visitors to wander the waters of Iceland's glaciers.

A giant red chair bolted to a rock on a remote mossy hillside in Iceland.

A sulfuric martian landscape that looks far better than it smells.

The oldest steel ship in Iceland has been beached for years and is now a rusting ruin.