20-foot tall lamp mumbles Swedish to celebrate the holidays.

Only electricity pylons carrying both AC and DC circuits.

Many historians today consider Sverre as Norway's greatest king of all time. 

A competition inspired by Stephen King's psychological horror novel "The Long Walk."

A modern, secular take on a traditional Virgin Mary motif.

The world's first purpose-built indoor shopping mall opened in Sweden in 1955.

This abandoned Swedish folkpark offers an amazing view over the town of Överkalix.

This massive Trojan ursine was built to be a new tourist symbol for a small Swedish town.

A Chinese meditation center in the middle of rural Sweden, partly funded by a member of ABBA.

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

An otherworldly, fossil-rich cobble beach holds Viking graves, cairns, and other remains.

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

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.

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

Bring your hiking shoes, wool socks, and thermal underwear for a stay in these cozy forest huts.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

Legend says this fabled well held part of a mythical Norse tree.

The charming storybook building now houses a small police museum.

The second oldest anatomical theater is housed in a museum of curiosities.