Places Skuttel Wants to Go

Twice a year, this floating library delivers thousands of books to the remote islands of Stockholm’s archipelago.

Sweden's first electric elevator remains hidden within a fortress-like building.

The Swedish flag over this small naval fort signals that the nation is at peace.

The apartment where Pippi Longstocking came to life.

Stockholm's last remaining paternoster elevator.

This small museum nestled inside a souvenir shop is dedicated to Sweden's most well-known toy.

A Stockholm metro station is home to an escalator that is not only the longest in Sweden, but among the longest in the world.

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

Although rarely used, there is still a hidden room for the royal family at the Stockholm central station.

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

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

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

Eat a Nobel banquet from any year in the basement of Stockholm's City Hall.

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.

The world's largest model of our planetary system.

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

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

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

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

Sweden's first nuclear reactor, R1, can be visited 25 meters underground.

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

A 13th-century convent where St. Margaret of Hungary spent her teenage years.

This building has survived for more than a century and remains virtually untouched.