A 1:42 scale model of the world's second largest lensed telescope.

Wooden cutouts of the fictional family from the popular Swedish comic strip take a stroll along the side of the road.

Rocks carved with biblical passages in the 1800s.

A rare rune stone dedicated to a woman.

18th century opera in its original splendor.

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

One of the world's few mounted blue whales, its jaws are hinged open allowing visitors to descend into a lounge.

Dine on food tied to Viking history and legend at this subterranean Stockholm spot.

The world's first purpose-built indoor shopping mall opened in Sweden in 1955.

This mysterious runestone embedded in a church wall is linked to the medieval cult of Saint Erik.

This little gallery is devoted to one small town's passion for a very special cheese.

A catapult rock from Gotland’s 13th-century civil war is still lodged in Scandinavia's best-preserved medieval city wall.

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

This encrypted monolith protected a secret of Norse mythology by hiding in a church wall for over a millennium.

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