Places IrajV Wants to Go

A staggering collection of satellite models and actual flight parts.

The concrete skeletons of an abandoned Swedish town hide among the trees.

An effigy of the deity emerges from a temple's water every 40 years.

In a country where driving from one town to another is literally impossible, this small stretch of gravel is a remarkable feat.

This charming, hidden guild museum holds some 700 years of crossbow history.

A small church in Uppsala hides the grave of a renowned 18th-century astronomer.

The final resting place of the father of modern biological taxonomy.

These eight mummies are the best-preserved human remains ever discovered in North America.

Beloved children's TV characters freckle the German city's streets.

This statue and park honor the Swedish chemist Jacob Berzelius, one of the founders of modern chemistry.

This unique, full-sized copy of the Bayeux Tapestry sports a few modern additions, including underwear.

The striking jade death mask of an ancient Maya king is displayed in a replica tomb in Mexico City.

A plaque marks the house in Stockholm where the French philosopher René Descartes lived up until his death.

Outside a Viking museum sits a modern-day runestone made by a Swedish runemaster using traditional methods.

Gravity seems to fail at this intriguing Swedish attraction.

This small town's local tradition is to create the world's tallest ice pillar.

Renowned mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss once worked at this observatory.

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

The world's largest underground iron ore mine.

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

What looks like a birch tree smushed between two pieces of glass often confounds commuters.

A surprisingly beautiful abandoned World War II military base in East Greenland.

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

Legend has it this spring formed at the spot where a medieval Swedish king was killed.