A former smithy turned cultural hub with the capital's largest mural space.

This legendary roadside attraction feels like a bizarre mirage, 101 kilometers outside the resort city of Eilat.

A prime example of socialist modernist architecture, wrapped in a enormous fresco about the media.

These massive animal sculptures were constructed as part of a reality TV show challenge.

Contrasting the old concrete courthouse beneath, a modern and colorful residential marvel has emerged, stirring both acclaim and controversy.

A sculpture capturing the emotional moment when a refugee boy realizes he is about to be deported.

The tennis legend became the best in the world (partly) thanks to practicing against his garage door, now on display in a museum near his childhood home.

This disputed feline sculpture is Sweden's first MeToo monument.

A sculpture of three large candles in the middle of the water of the river Smedjeån.

A centuries-old olive tree thrives in a small botanical garden.

A scenic UNESCO site that doubles as a habitat for various forms of wildlife.

This legendary dessert was served to Nobel laureates for decades.

Maybe the only restaurant in the world where your seat will be signed by a Nobel laureate.

A water reservoir disguised as a castle stands atop a hill in a park in Stockholm city.

A Japanese video game arcade hides in the back of a Swedish pool hall.

Dine on food tied to Viking history and legend at this subterranean Stockholm spot.

Stockholm's last remaining paternoster elevator.

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

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

Part of an abandoned19th-century fortress hides in plain sight inside a modern office building.

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

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

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

A former suicide bridge is now accumulating symbols of love instead of a body count.