Places Graffen Wants to Go

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

"Only the dead get off at Kymlinge."

This railroad track was so secretive that it was omitted from all maps.

Crystal chandeliers brighten up this dark underpass.

18th century opera in its original splendor.

Despite dreams of constructing this fairytale mansion, Albert Gotthard Nestor Cedergren never saw its completion.

This tree was once used to calculate the decrease of the Baltic Sea.

Sweden's largest optical telescope sits on a rooftop in Stockholm.

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

A simple stone remembers one of the most menacing horses in the Swedish military.

When a conglomerate of visionary startups commandeer a disused Greek Orthodox Church, zaniness ensues.

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

An ancient tree that was once the favorite of a young Swedish royal.

One of the world's oldest continuously operating meteorological stations sits on a hill in Stockholm.

This grisly exhibit houses skeletons and weapons from a devastating 14th-century clash.

The apartment where Pippi Longstocking came to life.

Inside this church, a monument honors the first burial site of the famed philosopher.

The internet as provided by a James Bond villain.

The discovery of an old wall led to the creation of this fascinating museum about the city in the Middle Ages.

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

A steel paper plane is all that remains of a crashed aircraft that caused an amazingly small amount of damage.

This centuries-old rooster survived a devastating fire.

Blaxhall's burgeoning boulder can't help putting on a few extra stones.

An oil drilling mistake created this fountain that has been spraying water for over 150 years.