Places adamantum Wants to Go

A sculpture of a woman so beautiful she got arrested for it.

A collection of trees from various corners of the world call Stockholm University home.

The site of Stockholm's last public execution.

A response to the wrongly placed meridian of the same name.

On Nobel Street, a miniature statue of Alfred Nobel.

A miniature statue of a beloved character from children's literature.

At low tide, you can see the remains of a 17th-century ship just off a Stockholm island.

Maybe the only restaurant in the world where your seat will be signed by a Nobel laureate.

This handsomely carved wooden church is more than 800 years old.

This record shop and unofficial black metal museum is an ode to Oslo's heaviest musical export.

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

An artist's mausoleum with a haunting echo.

Across the Pacific in a raft, a museum dedicated to Thor Heyerdahl's now legendary expedition.

Housing the famous Norwegian ice-defying 19th century polar exploration ship.

Barça football fans might see the insignia hidden in a church window as a divine sign.

The unexpectedly beloved remnants of a controversial thermal power plant.

This mansion oasis contains gardens, sculptures, and fountains just off the busy Plaça Kennedy in Sant Gervasi.

An early 20th-century bullring converted into a modern shopping center.

This home designed for chocolate magnate Antoni Amatller is an exquisite treasure-box of Catalan Modernism.

An open-air "garden" of mural art that changes weekly.

Barcelona's only remaining tram system takes riders to the Tibidabo funicular.

This stunning iron gate designed by Modernist architect Antoni Gaudí is filled with mythic symbolism.

A vista of the city and sea from atop the little-known viewing deck on an unassuming Columbus statue.

Possibly the oldest church in Barcelona, this basilica has its pagan and Christian mythologies all mixed up.