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

Enormous ants wielding giant pine needles guard a Stockholm real estate company's office.

Finally reunited, the three effigies now stand in a museum courtyard.

This gem from the industrial age helps visitors and residents alike traverse hilly Stockholm.

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

Outside a Viking museum sits a modern-day runestone made by a Swedish runemaster using traditional methods.

A king's bloodstained shirt is among the gruesome collection of artifacts displayed below Stockholm's Royal Palace.

A plaque marks the house in Stockholm where the French philosopher René Descartes lived up until his death.

This giant subway sculpture celebrates the fruit that inspired the theory of gravity.

Frequent fliers welcome in this airplane hotel.

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

No one knows who's responsible for decorating this tunnel with stuffed animals, but the people love it enough to protest their removal.

A golden egg-shaped sauna in the Arctic tundra.

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

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.

A microbiologist-chef is slinging noodles with hyperlocal Nordic ingredients.

This record shop and unofficial black metal museum is an ode to Oslo's heaviest musical export.

In downtown Oslo, a menacing and terrifying relief clings to a church wall.

One man's exploration of the human form, including the bizarre and delightful "Man Attacked by Babies."

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

An otherworldly art experience.

See the sky in a new way through this art installation.