Places Oops3ggs Wants to Go

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

This encrypted monolith protected a secret of Norse mythology by hiding in a church wall for over a millennium.

Walking through this narrow gorge will make you feel like you've fallen into a fairytale landscape.

An otherworldly, fossil-rich cobble beach holds Viking graves, cairns, and other remains.

The single richest source of elemental discoveries in the world.

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

This chimerical bridge/tunnel appears to dead end right into the sea.

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

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

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

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

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.

The world's largest model of our planetary system.

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

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

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

Dine on food tied to Viking history and legend at this subterranean Stockholm spot.

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

See where this respected Finnish painter created over 200 works of art.

Home to the finest collection of peasant boats in Finland.

This island castle now hosts a world-famous opera festival.

These lakeside pictographs were some of the first pieces of prehistoric artwork found in Finland.