Places toniamonkey Wants to Go

Iron Age grave stones and Viking burials, a short drive from Gothenburg.

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

According to legend, this boat-shaped henge is built over the grave of a mythic king.

This encrypted monolith protected a secret of Norse mythology by hiding in a church wall for over a millennium.

One of the world's few mounted blue whales, its jaws are hinged open allowing visitors to descend into a lounge.

A floating underwater hotel, created by a Swedish artist.

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

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.

Crooked windswept pines give this old forest an enchanted and magical look.

A man has revenged his true love's betrayal through tears and stone genitalia.

Micro-nation based around a nine-story high illegally built tower.

This homeless brass fox tugs at your heartstrings from the foot of a Stockholm bridge.

An ancient Viking runestone hidden in plain view in Stockholm's old town.

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

Bring your hiking shoes, wool socks, and thermal underwear for a stay in these cozy forest huts.

The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.

The library's graceful rotunda is like a bibliophile's temple.

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

A series of modernist treehouse hotel rooms grace the outskirts of an Arctic forest.

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.

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

This neoclassic cathedral also houses what is believed to be the oldest clock in the Americas.

At this Oaxaca contest, artists turn purple produce into stunning depictions of saints, buildings, and La Pietà.