Places ravendragonwing Wants to Go

Twice a year, this floating library delivers thousands of books to the remote islands of Stockholm’s archipelago.

Sweden's first electric elevator remains hidden within a fortress-like building.

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

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

What looks like a birch tree smushed between two pieces of glass often confounds commuters.

This small statue hints at the incorrect origins of the lush landscape park surrounding it.

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

Sweden's largest optical telescope sits on a rooftop in Stockholm.

The final resting place of the man whose name has become synonymous with greatness.

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

This giant crucifix is like U2's Joshua Tree for Swedish death metal fans.

Finally reunited, the three effigies now stand in a museum courtyard.

This unique sculpture is often overlooked by pedestrians.

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

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

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

An 11th-century runestone decorates the halls of Terminal 2 of this Scandinavian travel hub.

Sweden's oldest animated sign is still lighting up the skyline today.

A king's bloodstained shirt is among the gruesome collection of artifacts displayed below Stockholm's Royal Palace.

Sound travels strangely in this underground whispering gallery.

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

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

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 suspected burial mound of legendary Viking Björn Ironside.