Places BenMears Wants to Go

Once designed as a natural history museum, this building is now home to a massive art gallery.

This unusual statue overlooking the Royal Mile has an interesting backstory.

This 16th-century close preserves an unusual piece of Edinburgh's transportation history.

This charming old building's loose connection with the Scottish Reformer is what saved it from demolition after it split apart.

This 15th-century structure had a long, tortuous journey to its current location.

This metallic cross was most likely the last thing a condemned person would see while on the gallows.

Stockholm's tiniest statue is of a small boy looking at the Moon.

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

On Nobel Street, a miniature statue of Alfred Nobel.

This legendary dessert was served to Nobel laureates for decades.

The palace for King Gustav III was never completed, but the foundation remains tucked away in this city park.

A king's bloodstained shirt is among the gruesome collection of artifacts displayed below Stockholm's Royal Palace.

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

This declassified Cold War bunker hosts a large collection of Swedish aircraft.

The place to be if you love vintage Swedish cars.

One of the world's few mounted blue whales, its jaws are hinged open allowing visitors to descend into a lounge.

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

A novel collection of medical curiosities housed in an 18th-century surgeon training academy.

Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

An ultra-modern diversity park in Denmark has turned an entire city block electric pink.