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

A statue that stood at the center of a long copyright battle.

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

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

This homeless brass fox tugs at your heartstrings from the foot of a Stockholm bridge.

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

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

The scars of a remarkably organized public protest to save 13 elm trees are still visible in this Stockholm park.

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

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

This statue and park honor the Swedish chemist Jacob Berzelius, one of the founders of modern chemistry.

The 19th-century home of Count and Countess von Hallwyl is now a museum.

A concrete mushroom that divided Stockholm residents for nearly a century.

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

A heated statue pays tribute to one of Sweden's great actresses.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

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

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

The Swedish flag over this small naval fort signals that the nation is at peace.

The world's largest model of our planetary system.

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

The oldest Swedish built lighthouse still guides ships through the archipelago.

This trio of stone spires claims to be the only preserved medieval execution site in Europe.

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