Places 85wombats Wants to Go

Sweden's first nuclear reactor, R1, can be visited 25 meters underground.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

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

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

A Swedish farm is the world's only producer of the rare, creamy delicacy that is moose cheese.

Eat a Nobel banquet from any year in the basement of Stockholm's City Hall.

One of the oldest structures in Helsinki is this burrow grave that dates back to the Bronze Age.

Home to the finest collection of peasant boats in Finland.

These large stone piles are ancient burial sites.

These lakeside pictographs were some of the first pieces of prehistoric artwork found in Finland.

On a small island, a replica of a Finnish village from the Iron Age.

This bed and breakfast is steeped in history and offers guests a unique way to experience nature—glass igloos on a frozen lake.

One of the world's most unusual events combines headbanging and needlework.

These 5,000-year-old cave paintings provide a glimpse into prehistoric Finnish life.

A lumberjack in Finnish Lapland did not want to cut down his Arctic pines, so he offered them up to be adopted by nature-lovers.

The church's remarkable frescoes incorporate Finnish artist Hugh Simberg's trademark themes of death and the supernatural.

These Finnish rapids have been attracting tourists for over a hundred years and are now released with the push of a button.

This intricately spiralling forest was created as a monumental work of art.

A little-known sculpture park of contemporary environmental art in a Lapland forest.

Hidden deep in a forest is this geological wonder carved by glaciers.

Quality time with reindeer in the stunning scenery of their natural Lappish habitat above the Arctic Circle.

In the Hugging Tree Forest, lingonberry marshmallows, hot chocolates, and the best campfire lattes north of the Arctic Circle come to you.

This lake-bound geographical marker sits at the point where three European countries intersect.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.