Places escapementality Wants to Go

A miniature model of the iconic Stockholm department store.

This gem from the industrial age helps visitors and residents alike traverse hilly Stockholm.

A Japanese video game arcade hides in the back of a Swedish pool hall.

Stockholm's narrowest alley is barely over two feet wide.

"Only the dead get off at Kymlinge."

Frequent fliers welcome in this airplane hotel.

It's always game time at Stockholm's only museum devoted solely to video games.

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.

Street artists transformed this abandoned industrial neighborhood into one of Europe's largest graffiti exhibitions.

Stockholm's deepest subway station is also a stunning ecological wonder.

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

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.

Now a hotel, this former bank was the site of a robbery that spawned a psychological phenomenon.

The internet as provided by a James Bond villain.

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

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

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

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

The only surviving piece of Copenhagen's 16th-century defensive wall.

This ordinary street was made infamous by a legendary visit from the devil.

An old Danish political institution where members of government can grab a drink off the record.

The art museum is decorated with creatively remodeled pre-Nazi swastikas.

A collection of noses tucked inside an art museum reveals how times have changed.