These two springs are tied to several legends, one of which involves the travels of Saint Olof.

This underground car park moonlights as a permanent art exhibition.

This tiny Swedish troll protects the land and all who wander within it.

A few crumbling buildings and the occasional pipe sticking out of the ground are all that remains of the largest refugee camp in Sweden during World War II.

This runestone once destroyed by an explosion has been painstakingly reassembled to save its history.

Stone carvings record the Norse myth of Sigurd, providing a glimpse into Scandinavia's transition from paganism to Christianity.

Few would expect the world's oldest preserved oil refinery to be found in Sweden.

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

Believed to be the country's tallest waterfall, the Njupeskär is actually much smaller.

Gravity seems to fail at this intriguing Swedish attraction.

Stockholm's famed ghost train is now on display at an art park in northern Sweden.

This serene wooded hilltop has a dark history as the climactic point of the Swedish witch trials.

An ornate Thai pavilion in the middle of Sweden.

A botched 18th-century canal silenced one of Sweden's most magnificent waterfalls.

The giant club-wielding wildman stands proud as the symbol of Swedish Lapland.

The cheese slicer may be a Norwegian invention, but the biggest ones in the world are found in Sweden.

A tiny village is home to the world's only diner completely devoted to the many varieties of traditional Swedish dumplings.

This statue, deep in a Swedish forest, is all alone, just like the renowned recluse would have wanted.

This massive Trojan ursine was built to be a new tourist symbol for a small Swedish town.

The world's first purpose-built indoor shopping mall opened in Sweden in 1955.

The concrete skeletons of an abandoned Swedish town hide among the trees.

This abandoned Swedish folkpark offers an amazing view over the town of Överkalix.

The world’s largest knitted mitten is displayed in one of Sweden’s smallest Arctic villages.

Few remain of these distinctive old trees that once served as natural landmarks for travelers on the road.