Quirky Sweden: Largest book, smallest church, more!

What purports to be the world’s largest book (above) is only one of Sweden’s more unusual attractions, according to a list compiled by TheLocal.se.

Others include the smallest church, a model of Istanbul, a convenience-store museum and a Buddhist castle in Lapland. To see the whole list, click HERE

That giant book, called Codex Gigas, which means Giant Book, is also called the Devil’s Bible and has his picture on the cover. It weighs 75 kg, and was supposedly copied by an imprisoned monk who completed the 620 pages in one night, with the help of…wait for it…the Devil.

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