A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

A miniature model of the iconic Stockholm department store.

A Stockholm metro station is home to an escalator that is not only the longest in Sweden, but among the longest in the world.

A golden plaque marks the site of the mysterious unsolved assassination of the former Swedish prime minister.

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

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

Stockholm's deepest subway station is also a stunning ecological wonder.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

Legend has it this spring formed at the spot where a medieval Swedish king was killed.

A large collection of ancient runestones decorates this university courtyard.

A nightly tradition fills the streets of Flogsta with a collective scream.

Uppsala's adorable feline sign celebrates a popular children's book set in the Swedish city.

A replica of the beloved character's house, modeled after the author's own drawings.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

Enigmatic bug-like sculptures mystify drivers along a Swedish highway.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

A perfectly circular stronghold constructed in the 10th century is now a nucleus of Viking culture housing a museum, village, and reenactment of an epic Viking battle.

Micro-nation based around a nine-story high illegally built tower.

According to legend, this boat-shaped henge is built over the grave of a mythic king.

This Scandinavian island is the site of the first modern observatory.

Sweden's southernmost point is located in this charming fishing village.

This statue standing near Sweden's southernmost point was based on the grandmother of a modern movie star.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.