Places KatjaSm Wants to Go

The world's largest model of our planetary system.

A cuddly version of a dark mythological creature now acts as the mascot of a town.

Sweden's first Viking city is also the site of thousands of burial mounds.

The suspected burial mound of legendary Viking Björn Ironside.

A 12th-century church with a medieval fresco and an intriguing “Greek runestone.”

Sweden's oldest street has not changed for nearly a millennium.

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

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

The second-largest collection of runic calendar staffs in Sweden.

The first thermometer made with the almost-universal temperature scale is backwards.

A large collection of ancient runestones decorates this university courtyard.

A rare rune stone dedicated to a woman.

Uppsala's adorable feline sign celebrates a popular children's book set in the Swedish city.

Legend says this fabled well held part of a mythical Norse tree.

The official meeting point for the oddly named governing assembly of ancient Sweden.

This mysterious runestone embedded in a church wall is linked to the medieval cult of Saint Erik.

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

A mysterious stone staircase deep in the Swedish woods, said to have been made by trolls.

Twice a year, this floating library delivers thousands of books to the remote islands of Stockholm’s archipelago.

Not quite the cultural gateway between China and Sweden its designer imagined.

A Viking man's tribute to his brother stands in Gävle's oldest church.

A nightly tradition fills the streets of Flogsta with a collective scream.

A centuries-old iron mine is now a paradise for explorers, divers, and spelunkers.

A semi-sterile mutant birch that became Sweden's national tree.