Said to be one of Sweden's most haunted places, this vicarage once even attracted a ghost-busting priest.

This Swedish automobile graveyard is a beautiful gallery of decay, but woe be to any who would steal a souvenir.

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

This luxury hotel suite is located deep in the bowels of an old mine.

Iron Age grave stones and Viking burials, a short drive from Gothenburg.

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

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

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

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

This chimerical bridge/tunnel appears to dead end right into the sea.

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

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

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

The legendary luxury train passage is commemorated with a charming museum inside its former eastern terminus.

Turkish adventurer antiques in the heart of the Grand Bazaar.

This sacred cave temple is home to thousands of bats and according to legend, a giant snake king.

The name of this ancient Indonesian temple translates as "Elephant Cave" but it could be more accurately called "The Hellmouth."

This tiny lake temple dedicated to a water goddess seems to float on the surface.

Sacred waters rescued from the wrath of a volcano.

One native village in Bali lays their dead at the foot of a holy tree whose natural fragrance seems to hide the stench as the bodies decompose.

An abandoned hotel in the highlands of Bali is shrouded in stories of ghosts, curses, and corruption.

A tiny, heartwarming piece of art hiding in plain sight.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.