Places hlilje Wants to Go

The deepest hole drilled in the name of science, where evidence of Precambrian life was found.

This legendary dessert was served to Nobel laureates for decades.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

A repurposed railway tunnel with otherworldly acoustic characteristics.

The fastest way to send a message before electricity was invented.

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

Gravity seems to fail at this intriguing Swedish attraction.

This tiny Swedish troll protects the land and all who wander within it.

The final resting place of the man whose name has become synonymous with greatness.

An 11th-century runestone decorates the halls of Terminal 2 of this Scandinavian travel hub.

This lake-bound geographical marker sits at the point where three European countries intersect.

A catapult rock from Gotland’s 13th-century civil war is still lodged in Scandinavia's best-preserved medieval city wall.

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

The wilderness of northern Sweden is full of shelters to protect people from sounding rockets returning from space.

The center of Stockholm can be found along this quiet street.

The suspected burial mound of legendary Viking Björn Ironside.

Although rarely used, there is still a hidden room for the royal family at the Stockholm central station.

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

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

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

The 3.8 billion-year-old rock proves that tectonic plates may have been shifting longer than we thought.

The world's northernmost flowers cling tenuously to life on desolate Kaffeklubben Island.

This Arctic storage facility is a secure backup for agricultural biodiversity.