Places tstriegel Wants to Go

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

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

Dine on food tied to Viking history and legend at this subterranean Stockholm spot.

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

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

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

The people murdered during a 17th-century Norwegian witch hunt have been honored with a pair of stark, modern installations.

The largest cave in Northern Europe.

This Arctic mining town is home to a cat that's spent years masquerading as a fox.

The world's northernmost brewery uses water from a 2,000-year-old glacier to create its beer.

In the northernmost city in the world, it's illegal to be buried because it’s too cold for bodies to decompose.

This abandoned mining village was predicted to resist decay longer than any other modern human settlement.

The world's largest underwater restaurant is submerged off the southern tip of Norway.

A stunning silver lining to global warming's gloomy cloud.

An intricately carved Viking church overlooks a glistening fjord.

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

Walk 2,300 feet above the ground on the "Troll's Tongue."

Norway has built what may be the world's most beautiful public toilet.

A failed attempt to control drifting sands yielded a gnarled sylvan wonderland.

This Denmark theme park is part family attraction, part experimental archaeology project.

This Danish rock field is actually a sprawling ancient cemetery holding the bodies of 700 Vikings.

A natural wonder in south Denmark.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.