A large collection of ancient runestones decorates this university courtyard.

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.

This wonky bit of historical taxidermy is experiencing a second life online.

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

The suspected burial mound of legendary Viking Björn Ironside.

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

A traveling Bronze Age sacrificial stone that was used to honor elves, fairies, and other woodland spirits.

This stone obelisk is a relic of the 17th-century Swedish mile markers.

This giant crucifix is like U2's Joshua Tree for Swedish death metal fans.

A rare surviving Victorian greenhouse designed specifically to house giant water lilies.

A prehistoric geological oddity tucked behind Stockholm's natural history museum.

A collection of trees from various corners of the world call Stockholm University home.

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

The world's largest model of our planetary system.

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

It's always game time at Stockholm's only museum devoted solely to video games.

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

It was meant to help transport wounded soldiers to a secret underground hospital.

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

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

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

The discovery of an old wall led to the creation of this fascinating museum about the city in the Middle Ages.