Places Pengwn Wants to Go

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

A steel paper plane is all that remains of a crashed aircraft that caused an amazingly small amount of damage.

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

This Danish rock field is actually a sprawling ancient cemetery holding the bodies of 700 Vikings.

"Only the dead get off at Kymlinge."

A Very Low Frequency transmitter you can tune in on your PC.

Frequent fliers welcome in this airplane hotel.

In the town of Åtvidaberg, the midday sun sets off a loud cannon boom.

This wonky bit of historical taxidermy is experiencing a second life online.

This pyramid in southern Sweden houses the remains of an eccentric nobleman, who spent his life doing whatever he felt like doing.

The second oldest anatomical theater is housed in a museum of curiosities.

A nightly tradition fills the streets of Flogsta with a collective scream.

This roundabout was renamed in honor of the Swedish king's royal fender-bender.

Thousands of years of crashing waves gave this mushroom-shaped rock its svelte figure.

For a couple of months each year this Swedish city turns into a festive neon phantasmagoria.

From under the bed of one of the co-founders, this server helped launch the notorious file-sharing website.

A forest of immensely tall and unusually straight oak trees planted nearly 200 years ago to build naval ships that never came to be.

There are no crying babies in this neck of the woods.

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

Once the nail factory shut its doors, this Swedish factory town was abandoned, leaving behind a modern ghost town.

If there is one thing you don't want to be in Sweden during Christmas, it's a Yule Goat.

The last fully functional fortress of Germany's World War II Atlantikwall.

Monuments don't get much more metal than these three giant viking swords planted in a Nordic hill.

The remnants of a record-setting industrial bucket system can still be found dotting the Swedish countryside.