Places toniamonkey Wants to Go

This centuries-old rooster survived a devastating fire.

The giant club-wielding wildman stands proud as the symbol of Swedish Lapland.

The palace for King Gustav III was never completed, but the foundation remains tucked away in this city park.

The final resting place of the man whose name has become synonymous with greatness.

Part of an abandoned19th-century fortress hides in plain sight inside a modern office building.

A heated statue pays tribute to one of Sweden's great actresses.

Legend has it that this large rock maze in Sweden was created as punishment by the daughter of a wealthy captain.

A modern, secular take on a traditional Virgin Mary motif.

The second-largest collection of runic calendar staffs in Sweden.

The first overseas server for Facebook in Sweden's tundra.

Legend has it this spring formed at the spot where a medieval Swedish king was killed.

Rocks carved with biblical passages in the 1800s.

An ornate Thai pavilion in the middle of Sweden.

This simple roadside art installation ended up sparking a folk art movement and a controversy of international proportions.

The suspected burial mound of legendary Viking Björn Ironside.

Not quite the cultural gateway between China and Sweden its designer imagined.

Known locally as the Jungfrutornet, this Medieval tower hides a dark legend.

A concrete Picasso in the middle of a student housing complex on the outskirts of Stockholm.

This tiny Swedish troll protects the land and all who wander within it.

A tombstone on the grounds of the royal castle marks the burial site of a Swedish king's beloved dog.

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

The remnants of a record-setting industrial bucket system can still be found dotting the Swedish countryside.

A replica of the beloved character's house, modeled after the author's own drawings.

A Bronze Age stone ship said to be the grave of the mythical founder of Gotland.