Easily accessible by Stockholm's pedestrian ferry system, the Vasa Ship Museum is a both fascinating and fun slice of history. Much of...

In geographic terms, what we now see on the map as Sweden was a relatively late arrival in Europe. For more than a hundred thousand years...

Like a lot of Rhine cities, Düsseldorf was a border region in Roman times, with Germanic tribes on the eastern side of the river and...

The Kunstpalast has an entire wing dedicated to glass art, and has one of the finest glass collections in the world. The Glasmuseum...

(A separate post on the Kunstpalast's collection of glass art can be found here.) The Kunstpalast Düsseldorf is just one of the city's...

Less than an hour by train from Düsseldorf, Germany (a separate post on which is here), near the town of Mettman, is one of the most...