Places rubysage Wants to Go

This antique shop offers affordable 15th-century Vietnamese ceramics salvaged from a local shipwreck.

One of Vietnam's most iconic landmarks was built by Japanese traders and is now in danger of sinking.

Located off a bustling strip, a silent teahouse employs workers with hearing- or speech-related disabilities.

Drink and learn at this striking ode to coffee culture and history.

This fantastical icy castle is built anew every winter.

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

This bed and breakfast is steeped in history and offers guests a unique way to experience nature—glass igloos on a frozen lake.

Finland's northernmost zoo is home to the country's only polar bears.

If you visit Santa's village, you can get your passport stamped to show you crossed into the Arctic Circle.

Roughly 17 million letters to Santa have found their way to this Arctic Circle post office.

This Finnish town on the Arctic Circle is trademarked as the Official Hometown of Santa Claus.

The world’s largest knitted mitten is displayed in one of Sweden’s smallest Arctic villages.

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

A lumberjack in Finnish Lapland did not want to cut down his Arctic pines, so he offered them up to be adopted by nature-lovers.

The first and only troll museum in Norway has interactive exhibits, friendly staff and a small gift shop.

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

The world's northernmost botanic garden has 25 collections of plants from arctic and alpine regions.

Rent out a glass igloo to watch the Northern Lights like you live in the future.

A beautiful Arctic museum and nature center preserves the culture of the Sámi people.

The world's northernmost ice hotel.

This oddities museum and folk art environment encourages visitors to play, explore, create, and even add to the environment itself.

A miniature city, once ruled by the Queen of the Netherlands.

Survival capsules find a second life as a unique hotel.

The grave of the famous painter is marked by a simple stone in the ground.