Places wilsonn Wants to Go

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

The apartment where Pippi Longstocking came to life.

A Japanese video game arcade hides in the back of a Swedish pool hall.

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

Stockholm's deepest subway station is also a stunning ecological wonder.

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.

The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.

An abandoned swimming pool decays on the outskirts of Berlin.

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

Art and a pun, all in one.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

What looks like a crashed Zeppelin is actually a bright, airy reading room perched atop a modern museum.

The Lund University's former gym houses a museum focusing on the creative process of art.

These coffin-like Brutalist balconies were inspired by a nearby mine.

A medieval church that contains murals from famed artist Albertus Pictor.

Dedicated to a song so popular the request to "Play Shoreline" became part of Swedish culture.

This strange portrait of six ladies with chicken bodies commemorates a count's dirty habits.

Stockholm's famed ghost train is now on display at an art park in northern Sweden.

Locals rallied to save this beloved mural after someone mistakenly attempted to cover it.

A Stockholm metro station is home to an escalator that is not only the longest in Sweden, but among the longest in the world.

Small Easter eggs are hidden in the ventilation holes of the city's newest trains.

This statue, deep in a Swedish forest, is all alone, just like the renowned recluse would have wanted.