Places alessandralee Wants to Go

Depending on who you ask, this controversial treehouse is either a charmingly creative child's playhouse or an illegal encroachment on public land.

The first museum in the U.S. to address human rights issues in China.

A memorial to a Swedish hockey player's "encounter" with aliens.

Early habitat dioramas and home of the elusive gaff, the skvader.

This Scandinavian island is the site of the first modern observatory.

Tiny Swedish village with a distinct local phenomenon known as an "Elk Shower."

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

18th century opera in its original splendor.

Frequent fliers welcome in this airplane hotel.

There are no crying babies in this neck of the woods.

Bring your hiking shoes, wool socks, and thermal underwear for a stay in these cozy forest huts.

A nightly tradition fills the streets of Flogsta with a collective scream.

The second oldest anatomical theater is housed in a museum of curiosities.

This Stockholm light tower can be controlled by anyone with a smartphone.

For a couple of months each year this Swedish city turns into a festive neon phantasmagoria.

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

A man has revenged his true love's betrayal through tears and stone genitalia.

The remnants of a record-setting industrial bucket system can still be found dotting the Swedish countryside.

An ornate Thai pavilion in the middle of Sweden.

This massive Trojan ursine was built to be a new tourist symbol for a small Swedish town.

No one knows who's responsible for decorating this tunnel with stuffed animals, but the people love it enough to protest their removal.

A former hen house turned curiosity cabinet displays one man's lifelong fascination with cannibalism.

A peat bog in southern Sweden provides a cozy and photogenic home for junked Volvos, Saabs, and the occasional American muscle car.

This micronation's flag honors its favorite drink, Kaffegöken, or "cuckoo-coffee."