Places samalot Wants to Go

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

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

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

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

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

A fake 1930s-euro-style hotel with an indoor mini golf course.

From mid-September to early November, dreamy fields of pink muhly grass spring up all over South Korea.

One of only a handful of seaside temples in Korea, this sacred space is home to a legendary healing Buddha statue and a traffic safety prayer pagoda.

Along a rail-biking route, giant insects house a two-story restaurant.

South Korea's women of the sea have completely flipped their society's structure by becoming revered fisherwomen.

This former coal mine has been turned into a sprawling modern art complex.

Various forms of phallic art decorate this hill in commemoration of legendary local tragedy.

The Forest Service's surprisingly sophisticated collection of wildfire prevention art features America's most beloved bear.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

A cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

A hidden alley in urban Baltimore is a haven for graffiti artists.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.