Places Lillive Wants to Go

The apartment where Pippi Longstocking came to life.

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

This small museum nestled inside a souvenir shop is dedicated to Sweden's most well-known toy.

This giant subway sculpture celebrates the fruit that inspired the theory of gravity.

No one knows who's responsible for decorating this tunnel with stuffed animals, but the people love it enough to protest their removal.

This homeless brass fox tugs at your heartstrings from the foot of a Stockholm bridge.

When this 18th-century observatory's meridian was moved, it set Sweden's time back by 0.04 seconds.

A golden egg-shaped sauna in the Arctic tundra.

Street artists transformed this abandoned industrial neighborhood into one of Europe's largest graffiti exhibitions.

An ancient Viking runestone hidden in plain view in Stockholm's old town.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

Stockholm's narrowest alley is barely over two feet wide.

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.

The world's largest model of our planetary system.

A rare surviving Victorian greenhouse designed specifically to house giant water lilies.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

Stockholm's deepest subway station is also a stunning ecological wonder.

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

This pirate-broadcasting-tower-turned-restaurant played a rebellious role in the history of Dutch television.

This unusual elevator doesn’t stop or slow down.

One of Amsterdam's narrowest houses is located right across the canal from its widest.

This unattributed sculpture in Amsterdam is hiding in plain sight.