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 12th-century church with a medieval fresco and an intriguing “Greek runestone.”

Sweden's oldest animated sign is still lighting up the skyline today.

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

A former suicide bridge is now accumulating symbols of love instead of a body count.

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

"Only the dead get off at Kymlinge."

Stockholm's tiniest statue is of a small boy looking at the Moon.

A golden egg-shaped sauna in the Arctic tundra.

A man has revenged his true love's betrayal through tears and stone genitalia.

Stockholm's narrowest alley is barely over two feet wide.

Eat a Nobel banquet from any year in the basement of Stockholm's City Hall.

The remains of Alfred Nobel's first nitroglycerine factory can still be found on the shores of a Swedish bay.

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.

An ancient Viking runestone hidden in plain view in Stockholm's old town.

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

Now a hotel, this former bank was the site of a robbery that spawned a psychological phenomenon.

The world's largest model of our planetary system.

This Stockholm light tower can be controlled by anyone with a smartphone.

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

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

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

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

A hidden bathhouse in one of Stockholm's oldest and busiest neighborhoods is open to anyone who can find it.