Places KatjaSm Wants to Go

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

The apartment where Pippi Longstocking came to life.

Inside this church, a monument honors the first burial site of the famed philosopher.

This pair of unsuspecting buildings are in fact the very first modern skyscrapers in Europe.

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

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

An abstract representation of weather in Sweden.

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

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

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

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

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.

Stockholm's tiniest statue is of a small boy looking at the Moon.

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

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

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.

An ancient Viking runestone hidden in plain view in Stockholm's old town.

A plaque marks the house in Stockholm where the French philosopher René Descartes lived up until his death.

This unique sculpture is often overlooked by pedestrians.

On Nobel Street, a miniature statue of Alfred Nobel.

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

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

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