Places WhispersOfLamplight Wants to Go

A Swedish farm is the world's only producer of the rare, creamy delicacy that is moose cheese.

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.

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

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

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

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

This bed and breakfast is steeped in history and offers guests a unique way to experience nature—glass igloos on a frozen lake.

A lumberjack in Finnish Lapland did not want to cut down his Arctic pines, so he offered them up to be adopted by nature-lovers.

This intricately spiralling forest was created as a monumental work of art.

Finnish lake, and scene of an infamous murder mystery.

A beautiful Arctic museum and nature center preserves the culture of the Sámi people.

A little-known sculpture park of contemporary environmental art in a Lapland forest.

Crawling into this primordial cave may feel disconcertingly familiar.

Collection of nearly 500 concrete figures sculpted by the late Veijo Rönkkönen.

In the Hugging Tree Forest, lingonberry marshmallows, hot chocolates, and the best campfire lattes north of the Arctic Circle come to you.

A replica of the home of a famous fictional troll family.

Menacing or in memoriam, the Silent People and their meaning are left to interpretation.

This fantastical icy castle is built anew every winter.

Rent out a glass igloo to watch the Northern Lights like you live in the future.

Nestled in the woods lies this land art project: a hybrid between park, maze and natural monument.

Hop aboard a charming bog train to explore this rare open-air museum of peat.

A Dutch clog company in the town of Zaandam loves the wooden shoes so much it made a museum for them.

This disused VLF radio station is no longer in service but the surrounding town still bears its name.