Places djdalgleish Wants to Go

If there is one thing you don't want to be in Sweden during Christmas, it's a Yule Goat.

This luxury hotel suite is located deep in the bowels of an old mine.

Iron Age grave stones and Viking burials, a short drive from Gothenburg.

Hundreds of mossy stones engraved with bits of philosophy, literature and random musings.

According to legend, this boat-shaped henge is built over the grave of a mythic king.

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

This encrypted monolith protected a secret of Norse mythology by hiding in a church wall for over a millennium.

Crooked windswept pines give this old forest an enchanted and magical look.

An ancient Viking runestone hidden in plain view in Stockholm's old town.

This chimerical bridge/tunnel appears to dead end right into the sea.

Largest island in the Baltic Sea experiences such idyllic weather that roses bloom in the middle of December.

The world's oldest individual clonal tree looks like a wimp despite standing tall for 9,550 years.

The remains of Alfred Nobel's first nitroglycerine factory can still be found on the shores of a Swedish bay.

This homeless brass fox tugs at your heartstrings from the foot of a Stockholm bridge.

A floating underwater hotel, created by a Swedish artist.

Micro-nation based around a nine-story high illegally built tower.

The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.

At this museum in Iceland, visitors can sample fermented Greenland shark.

Travel deep inside of Europe's second largest glacier in the world's largest man-made ice cave.

A replica of the decorated wooden pillars Viking sailors threw overboard when finding new places to establish a settlement.

Iceland's first pagan temple in 1,000 years is underway in Reykjavík.

The bright red stripes streaking across the rocks are the star feature at this Icelandic waterfall.

One woman's lifelong collection is on display in this unassuming house on an Icelandic fjord.

This plaque tells the story of an event that took place in an imagined parallel universe.