History & Culture in Stockholm

At low tide, you can see the remains of a 17th-century ship just off a Stockholm island.

The signatures of esteemed colleagues of the physicists who stopped by to attend lectures.

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

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

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

The fastest way to send a message before electricity was invented.

Small Easter eggs are hidden in the ventilation holes of the city's newest trains.

These airport hangars are now a bustling shopping center with only hints of its past still lingering.

A response to the wrongly placed meridian of the same name.

The center of Stockholm can be found along this quiet street.

Despite dreams of constructing this fairytale mansion, Albert Gotthard Nestor Cedergren never saw its completion.

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

One of the world's oldest continuously operating meteorological stations sits on a hill in Stockholm.