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A massive land art sculpture fills a green space once tarnished by a landfill.

The indecision over what to place in this square was immortalized with a plaque.

These Bronze Age rock carvings are among the oldest in the region.

A temporary art piece to celebrate LGBTQ Pride is now a permanent part of Stockholm's traffic landscape.

An oil drilling mistake created this fountain that has been spraying water for over 150 years.

The cheese slicer may be a Norwegian invention, but the biggest ones in the world are found in Sweden.

Legend has it that this large rock maze in Sweden was created as punishment by the daughter of a wealthy captain.

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

This massive Trojan ursine was built to be a new tourist symbol for a small Swedish town.

The dome-shaped reservoir of this old water tower produces unique acoustic effects.

This unique sculpture is often overlooked by pedestrians.

A tiny village is home to the world's only diner completely devoted to the many varieties of traditional Swedish dumplings.

A 130-year-old urinal is the oldest of Stockholm and perhaps all of Sweden.

Several cannonballs of mysterious origins decorate two buildings in Stortoget's main square.

This patch of land is home to Sweden's largest burial mound, allegedly belonging to a mythical king.

Hidden in plain sight, Sweden's official ordnance datum is now abandoned.

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

A botched 18th-century canal silenced one of Sweden's most magnificent waterfalls.

A Bronze Age stone ship said to be the grave of the mythical founder of Gotland.

A geological wonder that helped fuel myths of trolls and giants.

Gravity seems to fail at this intriguing Swedish attraction.

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

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

A steel paper plane is all that remains of a crashed aircraft that caused an amazingly small amount of damage.