Places MeanderingMind Wants to Go

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

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

The internet as provided by a James Bond villain.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

This ultra-modern wooden boardwalk turns the ocean into a swimming pool.

This Denmark theme park is part family attraction, part experimental archaeology project.

An enormous playhouse designed to look like 21 stacked Lego bricks, with another 25 million colorful Legos inside.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

Six beautiful wooden giants are hidden around Copenhagen.

Vortex-shaped aquarium hosts Europe's largest school of piranhas and other ocean creatures.

A walkable map of the world, made from soil and stone by one man.

Norway's national monument to fallen seamen.

The world's northernmost ice hotel.

The world's northernmost aquarium looks like it has fallen over.

According to the locals, the sands of this secluded Norway beach are infused with gemstone particles.

Norway has built what may be the world's most beautiful public toilet.

Stay overnight in the world's most sleekly designed rabbit hole, free of charge.