This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

The tiny, studious rodents greet visitors to the National Archives of Finland.

Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.

This restaurant combines two Finnish traditions in one place: warm-weather relaxation and outdoor carpet-cleaning.

Finland's oldest astronomical observatory once played a crucial role in seafaring and timekeeping.

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

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

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

This grisly exhibit houses skeletons and weapons from a devastating 14th-century clash.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

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

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