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===Sandefjord=== [[File:Gokstadhaugen.jpg|thumb|Viking chieftain [[Olaf Geirstad-Alf]] was buried at the [[Gokstad Mound]].<ref name="Børresen, Svein E. 2004 Page 46" /><ref>Tore, Sandberg and Cato Arveschoug (2001). ''Sandefjord zoomet inn av fotograf Tore Sandberg''. C. Arveschoug and Magne Helland. Page 40. {{ISBN|9788299616706}}.</ref>]] * [[Sandefjord Museum]] (the Whaling Museum), Europe's only museum dedicated to whaling.<ref name="Philpott, Don 1991 Page 76" /><ref name="The Whaling Museum" /><ref name="Hvalfangstmuseet" /> ** [[Southern Actor]], only [[whale-catcher]] from the Modern Whaling Epoch still to be in its original working order.<ref name="ReferenceA" /><ref name="ReferenceB" /><ref name="https://snl.no/Sandefjord" /> * [[Gokstad Mound]], site of the discovery of the 9th-century ''[[Gokstad Ship]]''. * [[Gaia ship]], replica of the ''Gokstad Ship'' docked at Museum's Wharf. * [[Sandar Church]], built on ruins of a 13th-century [[medieval]] stone church. Present church was erected in 1792. * [[Whaler's Monument]], rotating bronze monument erected in honor of pioneering whalers. * [[Sandefjord Church]] * [[Istrehågan]], ancient burial ground which dates to the [[Roman Iron Age (Northern Europe)|Roman Iron Age]] around 1500-500 BCE.<ref name="visitvestfold.com" /> * [[Kurbadet]], former resort spa and one of Europe's most visited baths in the late 19th century.<ref name="Jøranlid, Marianne 1996 Page 36" /> * [[Vesterøya#Folehavna Fort|Folehavna Fort]], ruins from a [[Nazi Germany|German]] [[fortress]] erected in 1941 during the [[German occupation of Norway]].<ref name="ReferenceF" /> * [[Høyjord Stave Church]], the only [[stave church]] left in Vestfold County.<ref name="https://snl.no/Sandefjord" /> * [[Langeby]], popular bathing beach at [[Vesterøya|West Island]]. * [[Goksjø]], third-largest lake in Vestfold County.
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