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

20-foot tall lamp mumbles Swedish to celebrate the holidays.

These waste baskets play a few risque messages to discourage littering.

Swedish mice can dine at the Nuts of Life restaurant or take a date to the amousement park.

Street artists transformed this abandoned industrial neighborhood into one of Europe's largest graffiti exhibitions.

A medieval church that contains murals from famed artist Albertus Pictor.

This Viking Age memorial contains the oldest known image of a Täby resident.

Sweden's oldest street has not changed for nearly a millennium.

The official meeting point for the oddly named governing assembly of ancient Sweden.

A large collection of ancient runestones decorates this university courtyard.

The first thermometer made with the almost-universal temperature scale is backwards.

The second oldest anatomical theater is housed in a museum of curiosities.

The second-largest collection of runic calendar staffs in Sweden.

A rare rune stone dedicated to a woman.

An 11th-century runestone decorates the halls of Terminal 2 of this Scandinavian travel hub.

Early habitat dioramas and home of the elusive gaff, the skvader.

The final resting place of the man whose name has become synonymous with greatness.

This grisly exhibit houses skeletons and weapons from a devastating 14th-century clash.

The apartment where Pippi Longstocking came to life.

Sweden's first nuclear reactor, R1, can be visited 25 meters underground.

A Japanese video game arcade hides in the back of a Swedish pool hall.

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

When this 18th-century observatory's meridian was moved, it set Sweden's time back by 0.04 seconds.

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