These waste baskets play a few risque messages to discourage littering.

The unique design of this former quarry provides ideal acoustics for concerts.

The Lund University's former gym houses a museum focusing on the creative process of art.

Enigmatic bug-like sculptures mystify drivers along a Swedish highway.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

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

The marker that allows students all over the world to be late for class.

The standard measure of Lagom, a measure of what is enough.

These ancient rune stones plucked from the countryside now call this university park home.

This Swedish astronomical clock was in storage for almost a century before its glorious workings were put on display once more.

An ornate Thai pavilion in the middle of Sweden.

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

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

A living descendant of the famous tree that helped Isaac Newton develop the theory of gravity.

A modern, secular take on a traditional Virgin Mary motif.

This controversial statue once honoured a Russian Field Marshall, before ultimately being dismantled in a push to remove symbols of Russian influence.

This home designed for chocolate magnate Antoni Amatller is an exquisite treasure-box of Catalan Modernism.

Once an imperial lake garden, anyone can now visit this city park.

A local student's chance encounter with Keith Haring led to the creation of one of Europe's largest murals.

These sculptures were created by a 17th-century artist who had never seen an elephant.

Once home to one of the oldest banks in the world, this building is also where Marco Polo's famous travelogue was written.

The "Mona Lisa" of funerary art.

Stretching for 22 miles, the world's longest tree-lined avenue dates back to the early 17th-century.

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