Places BryanKnight Wants to Go

The library's graceful rotunda is like a bibliophile's temple.

The world's largest model of our planetary system.

The cheese slicer may be a Norwegian invention, but the biggest ones in the world are found in Sweden.

The trailblazing Swedish businesswoman created a beloved minty candy called polkagris.

A tiny village is home to the world's only diner completely devoted to the many varieties of traditional Swedish dumplings.

This restaurant gives a new meaning to farm-to-table cuisine.

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

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

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

A series of modernist treehouse hotel rooms grace the outskirts of an Arctic forest.

A hidden bathhouse in one of Stockholm's oldest and busiest neighborhoods is open to anyone who can find it.

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.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

Take a break from all the boring business of death at this funeral home mini-golf course.

The famous author's birthplace is preserved in a town that he once described as narrow-minded.

Pumpkin-like gargoyles and grotesques peer down from the rooftop of this unassuming apartment building in Illinois.

The first and only museum dedicated to stained glass and horology opened outside of Chicago in 2017.

This cemetery is all that remains of a school for "wayward" girls.

An exhibit of items from the mental institution where Mary Todd Lincoln lived after her son conspired to have her committed.

Burial mounds of prehistoric Native Americans who lived along the DuPage River.

Tucked away amongst townhomes lies a restored, early 20th-century tea house and garden, the only remains of a historic estate.

This elaborate Hindu temple is located in a Chicago suburb, but looks like it was transported directly from India.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.