Places jessicacripps Wants to Go

The world's most charming instant portrait studio also happens to be its smallest.

Mound of stones marking the burial site of the world's most famous orca.

The world's northernmost ice hotel.

Tens of thousands of tiny bottles stuffed with various items.

Across the Pacific in a raft, a museum dedicated to Thor Heyerdahl's now legendary expedition.

One of the most breathtaking railways in Europe also takes one of the steepest climbs, from fjord to mountain plateau.

An intricately carved Viking church overlooks a glistening fjord.

This massive Trojan ursine was built to be a new tourist symbol for a small Swedish town.

The place to be if you love vintage Swedish cars.

Ancient burial grounds of the wealthy.

Once the nail factory shut its doors, this Swedish factory town was abandoned, leaving behind a modern ghost town.

20-foot tall lamp mumbles Swedish to celebrate the holidays.

Swedish mice can dine at the Nuts of Life restaurant or take a date to the amousement park.

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

Bring your hiking shoes, wool socks, and thermal underwear for a stay in these cozy forest huts.

A series of modernist treehouse hotel rooms grace the outskirts of an Arctic forest.

Quality time with reindeer in the stunning scenery of their natural Lappish habitat above the Arctic Circle.

This fantastical icy castle is built anew every winter.

Rent out a glass igloo to watch the Northern Lights like you live in the future.

A peace symbol in Northern Ireland is among the world's largest hedge mazes.

A museum and gardens with unusual plants and a history of progressive programming for the blind.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

An Irish cemetery filled with victims of political strife and violent conflict, including the grave of Bobby Sands.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.