Places paleasfunk Wants to Go

The single richest source of elemental discoveries in the world.

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

"Only the dead get off at Kymlinge."

A plaque marks the house in Stockholm where the French philosopher René Descartes lived up until his death.

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

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

Located in an old church, this brewery produces a different kind of holy water.

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

A man has revenged his true love's betrayal through tears and stone genitalia.

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

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

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

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

The internet as provided by a James Bond villain.

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

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.

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.

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

The world's largest model of our planetary system.

This Stockholm light tower can be controlled by anyone with a smartphone.