Places everywhereemily Wants to Go

Opened in 1787, this old-world treasure is said to be the oldest restaurant in Copenhagen.

A statue of the heroic plumber stands outside a company that bluffed its way into being Nintendo’s Scandinavian distributor.

Once the center of power for the region's various factories.

Dedicated to a song so popular the request to "Play Shoreline" became part of Swedish culture.

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

The place to be if you love vintage Swedish cars.

The best-preserved weaving mill from the early 20th century in all of Scandinavia

This factory dominated the Swedish market, and is now a historic site.

A monumental magenta installation looms over a tangle of roads and tracks, as controversial as it is conspicuous.

A 200-year-old collection of medical paraphernalia in a historic house.

The world's biggest floating museum in Gothenburg, Sweden.

One of the world's first dedicated bank buildings in the world is now the oldest one.

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

A 130-year-old urinal is the oldest of Stockholm and perhaps all of Sweden.

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

A 1:42 scale model of the world's second largest lensed telescope.

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

When this 18th-century observatory's meridian was moved, it set Sweden's time back by 0.04 seconds.

The apartment where Pippi Longstocking came to life.

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

Absolutely no saxophones in the library.

Enormous ants wielding giant pine needles guard a Stockholm real estate company's office.

A sculpture of a woman so beautiful she got arrested for it.

This hole formed by a glacier is the largest and best-preserved of its kind in Stockholm.