Places meadowmouse Wants to Go

The single richest source of elemental discoveries in the world.

A Stockholm metro station is home to an escalator that is not only the longest in Sweden, but among the longest in the world.

The world's oldest individual clonal tree looks like a wimp despite standing tall for 9,550 years.

"Only the dead get off at Kymlinge."

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

According to legend, this boat-shaped henge is built over the grave of a mythic king.

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

One of the world's few mounted blue whales, its jaws are hinged open allowing visitors to descend into a lounge.

Micro-nation based around a nine-story high illegally built tower.

A Swedish farm is the world's only producer of the rare, creamy delicacy that is moose cheese.

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

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

A golden egg-shaped sauna in the Arctic tundra.

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

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

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

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

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

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 deepest subway station is also a stunning ecological wonder.

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