Places matical Wants to Go

Stockholm's tiniest statue is of a small boy looking at the Moon.

A Japanese video game arcade hides in the back of a Swedish pool hall.

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

Eat a Nobel banquet from any year in the basement of Stockholm's City Hall.

This grisly exhibit houses skeletons and weapons from a devastating 14th-century clash.

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

A golden egg-shaped sauna in the Arctic tundra.

The remains of Alfred Nobel's first nitroglycerine factory can still be found on the shores of a Swedish bay.

Crooked windswept pines give this old forest an enchanted and magical look.

The internet as provided by a James Bond villain.

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

The discovery of an old wall led to the creation of this fascinating museum about the city in the Middle Ages.

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

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.

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

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

The world's largest model of our planetary system.

Now a hotel, this former bank was the site of a robbery that spawned a psychological phenomenon.

The library's graceful rotunda is like a bibliophile's temple.

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

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

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

Sweden's first nuclear reactor, R1, can be visited 25 meters underground.

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