Places sverige17 Wants to Go

The tallest lighthouse in the Nordic countries was also the site of a bloody World War II battle.

This modernist island church incorporates the Finnish nature into its worship practices.

Fortifications built for a Soviet invasion that never came now sit abandoned in a losing battle against nature.

Large military radio station without transmitting towers.

This luxury hotel suite is located deep in the bowels of an old mine.

This ratty natural history collection is a charming relic among a city rushing into modernity.

A small memorial to a deadly night in Serbia that shook the world before it was swept under the rug.

One of the most controversial statues in Romania is an emperor with no clothes.

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.

The final resting place of a prominent Black American farming family sits in the shadows of an IKEA store.

This restaurant, art gallery, and nightlife hot spot is a love letter to Lagos from St. Louis.

The remains of this deep, dark mine have left behind a haunting rocky warren of tunnels.

A collection of art from Bulgaria's time as a communist state.

Swirling layers of white and red rock earned these mountains their festive nickname.

The remnants of an archaeological camp stand within Tikal National Park.

Atop this library is one of the most beautiful green spaces in Warsaw.

Where you can hail your favorite fictional commanders-in-chief.

A hidden stream deep in the mountains creates one of the largest tufa waterfalls in Serbia.

This fresco-covered medieval monastery hangs from the side of a steep cliff.

Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.

This World War II bunker now survives as a documentation of the Nazi regime and war crimes.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.