What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.

An entire shopping mall and industrial terrain named for the time the king of Sweden's car went into a ditch.

18th century opera in its original splendor.

Frequent fliers welcome in this airplane hotel.

This replica Viking village was created for a film that was never shot and is now open to visitors.

Twisted girders are all that remain of an Icelandic bridge that was wiped out by a combination of volcanic heat and glacial floods.

This poignant sculpture of a gnarled weapon is a symbol of non-violence.

Swedish skyscraper with a 90° twist.

What was once believed to be a church floor turned out to be the artwork of geology.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A golden plaque marks the site of the mysterious unsolved assassination of the former Swedish prime minister.

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

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

A water reservoir disguised as a castle stands atop a hill in a park in Stockholm city.

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 center of Stockholm can be found along this quiet street.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.