Places T MacRice Wants to Go

What looks like a birch tree smushed between two pieces of glass often confounds commuters.

Tucked away in a downtown Stockholm park are the remains of a World War II defense position.

A 130-year-old urinal is the oldest of Stockholm and perhaps all of Sweden.

Small Easter eggs are hidden in the ventilation holes of the city's newest trains.

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

Sound travels strangely in this underground whispering gallery.

A former suicide bridge is now accumulating symbols of love instead of a body count.

This giant subway sculpture celebrates the fruit that inspired the theory of gravity.

Stockholm's narrowest alley is barely over two feet wide.

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.

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

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

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

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

The discovery of an old wall led to the creation of this fascinating museum about the city in the Middle Ages.

Now a hotel, this former bank was the site of a robbery that spawned a psychological phenomenon.

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

Named after one of Canada's greatest writers who lived out her days in this quaint neighborhood.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

This pair of gilded girls atop an Art Deco building in Copenhagen were built to function as a weather indicator.

This contemplative sculpture made out of old machine parts is meant to be the first in a series of sculptures around the world.

The final resting place of one of the brightest physicists of the 20th century.

Long before ultrasounds and modern testing, medical specimens like these conjoined twins helped physicians learn about congenital anomalies.