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

This giant subway sculpture celebrates the fruit that inspired the theory of gravity.

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

Located in an old church, this brewery produces a different kind of holy water.

When this 18th-century observatory's meridian was moved, it set Sweden's time back by 0.04 seconds.

Frequent fliers welcome in this airplane hotel.

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

The single richest source of elemental discoveries in the world.

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

"Only the dead get off at Kymlinge."

The discovery of an old wall led to the creation of this fascinating museum about the city in the Middle Ages.

Stockholm's narrowest alley is barely over two feet wide.

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

No one knows who's responsible for decorating this tunnel with stuffed animals, but the people love it enough to protest their removal.

A man has revenged his true love's betrayal through tears and stone genitalia.

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.

Street artists transformed this abandoned industrial neighborhood into one of Europe's largest graffiti exhibitions.

The remains of Alfred Nobel's first nitroglycerine factory can still be found on the shores of a Swedish bay.

The internet as provided by a James Bond villain.

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

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

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

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

A rare surviving Victorian greenhouse designed specifically to house giant water lilies.