Places alebrun Wants to Go

Outside a Viking museum sits a modern-day runestone made by a Swedish runemaster using traditional methods.

Although rarely used, there is still a hidden room for the royal family at the Stockholm central station.

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

Dine on food tied to Viking history and legend at this subterranean Stockholm spot.

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

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

New Zealand's only running funicular railway.

One of New Zealand’s few castles boasts beautiful gardens, grand architecture, and a history filled with family drama.

Three rooms of bones, curios, and one artist's collection of natural artifacts create this intriguing museum.

The world's only complete colossal squid specimen is on display at the Te Papa Museum.

A few steps from the site of the Tlatelolco massacre, this museum tells the story of Mexico's 1968 student protests.

A bullet-scarred monastery chronicles Mexico's turbulent history of foreign invasions.

A bronze statue of the famed Prussian naturalist commemorates the year he spent in Mexico.

This ancient structure was built by a mysterious civilization that was largely destroyed by a volcanic eruption.

The ruins of an ancient temple to the Aztec wind god discovered in the middle of a metro station.

This “living museum” at UCLA exhibits thousands of plant species from all over the world.

Instead of faces, these sculptures have barcodes—statements on societal dehumanization.

The tallest bridge in California was constructed for a project that was eventually cancelled.