Places trixievw Wants to Go

A golden egg-shaped sauna in the Arctic tundra.

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

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

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

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

A microbiologist-chef is slinging noodles with hyperlocal Nordic ingredients.

This record shop and unofficial black metal museum is an ode to Oslo's heaviest musical export.

In downtown Oslo, a menacing and terrifying relief clings to a church wall.

One man's exploration of the human form, including the bizarre and delightful "Man Attacked by Babies."

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

An otherworldly art experience.

See the sky in a new way through this art installation.

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

This traditional Japanese-style house doubles as one of James Turrell's colorful works of art.

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

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

The final resting place of the author who gave us the Little Mermaid, the Ugly Duckling, and many more beloved fairy tales.

Visitors are treated to a stained glass kaleidoscope interior inside this work of art.

The gilded, masterful astronomical clock will calculate time, dates, and planetary positions for thousands of years to come.

A little-known cafe in an old copper bridge tower with 360-degree views of the harbor.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

An ultra-modern diversity park in Denmark has turned an entire city block electric pink.

East meets West in this Japanese-style garden featuring plants native to Maine’s Mount Desert Island.

A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.