The area around Bergslagskanalen is hilly and wooded with many lakes and small farms. The many lakes make the landscape open and beautiful. Animal species in the area are roe deer, hare, elk,beaver, lynx, different kinds of sea-birds and osprei, as well as very few wolves.

Up to the middle of the of the 19th century, this area was one of the most succsessful areas in the country within the iron industry and a great part of the iron for export was transported on Bergslagskanalen down to Kristinehamn on the lake Vänern. Bergslagskanalen used to be Sweden’s second largest transport way next to the channel Trollhätte kanal. The Walloons who came here in the 17th century, have left their mark, which you can tell from many family names in the area. In popular speech the region was called ”Järnbärarland” (the iron-bearing land). In the area there are a lot of remains from that time:
- The mining areas Persberg, Nordmark and Långban, as well as the silver mines of Hornkullen. Guided showings during the summer.
- Old industrial environments near rushing waters in Bjurbäcken, Knappfors, Brattfors, Lundsberg and Granbergsdal among other villages.
- Restored smelting works in the villages Brattfors and Långban, where there is also a museum, that shows the history of the iron and the life-time achievement of John Eriksson.

Bergslagskanalen itself, with its 65 km (40 miles) of channels, lakes and sluices, is worth seeing. Especially beatuiful is the area around the sluices of the small river Bjurbäcken, with the sluice keeper’s little cottage and the sluice in 3 steps with a height of fall of 11 metres.
The channel, that stretches from Filipstad in the north to Karlskoga in the south, is trafficked by the passanger boat MS Nobella during the summer.

Lundsberg, that is situated about 4 km (2,5 miles) from the farm is dominated by the boarding school with its fine old traditions, that was built in 1896 and where prince Carl Philip of Sweden graduated in 2000 (guiding possibilities). There is also an café in the old mill, that is situated on an island in steaming water. In Lundsberg there is also a beautiful golf course.

Lungsunds kyrkby (village with a church) is a picturesque village, 1 km (0,6 miles) from Sundvik, with a small wooden churh close to the lake and the beutifully situated old community centre Berget.

In Karlskoga, about 40 km (25 miles) from the farm, Alfred Nobel lived and worked, and here the Nobel Prize was instituted. In Björkborn, Alfred Nobel’s home, the Nobel museum and the experimental workshop ”Fiffiga huset” for children of all ages are worth a visit.

In Filipstad about 25 km (15,5 miles) from Sundvik the poet Nils Ferlin was born and raised. In the museum Kvarnen there is an exhibition about Ferlin every summer. In Filipstad there is also the world’s largest crispbread bakery Wasabröd (guiding).

In Storfors about 9 km (5,5 miles) from the farm there is a fire historical museum in the old fire department tower.

Kristinehamn about 30 km 1(8,5 miles) from the farm is situated on the lake Vänern. There Picasso had a big sculpture built up on a tongue of land in Vänern. The chapel of Östervik is a remarkable fascinating chapel, that is worth a visit (guiding).

Grythyttan about 50km (32 miles) from the farm is a picturesque place with cobbled streets and old wooden buildings. There is the inn of Grythyttan and Måltidens hus (restaurant school), a remarkable building from the world exhibition in Sevilla. 15 km (9 miles) south of Grythyttan is the health resort Loka Brunn, from where the water to the mineral water Loka is taken.