1. Åland Islands (Finland): A Paradise of Hidden Coves. The Åland Islands are often referred to as the Caribbean of the Baltic, and for good reason.

Shaped by millennia of glacier movements, the Stockholm Archipelago–with more than 30,000 islands–stretches into the Baltic Sea about 50 miles east of the Swedish capital. The new Stockholm ...

Map of Sweden showing Gotland Island. Shutterstock In usual Moscow fashion, when the online document about changing Russian maritime borders was spotted in the west, the Kremlin denied that it had ...