Places The Sitch Wants to Go

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

This grisly exhibit houses skeletons and weapons from a devastating 14th-century clash.

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 deepest subway station is also a stunning ecological wonder.

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

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

A hidden bathhouse in one of Stockholm's oldest and busiest neighborhoods is open to anyone who can find it.

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

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.

Nelson Mandela lived here with his family from 1946 until his arrest in 1962.

Brace yourself for the slowest, scariest, most spectacular drive, down the Drakensberg Escarpment.

This small monument marks the divide between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans at the southernmost tip of Africa.

Mined to a depth of 240 meters with a perimeter of about 1.6 km, the largest hand-dug excavation in the world.

The original goat tower, the one that started it all.

A mesmerizing sculpture marks the site where the activist was arrested after evading capture for 17 months.

Home to some of the oldest hominid fossils ever found.

An odd little fishing town that is inundated by tourists looking to be locked up in a cage and surrounded by great white sharks, because why not?

The world's largest pineapple building honors Bathurst's favorite fruit.

A safari-themed castle in the South African bush with the largest maze in the southern hemisphere.

These otherworldly caverns form Earth's oldest known cave system.

A sobering account of the vibrant multicultural neighborhood that was destroyed under apartheid.

The haunting beauty of this little-visited wreck makes it a true hidden treasure.