Places wilsonn Wants to Go

Enigmatic bug-like sculptures mystify drivers along a Swedish highway.

This cobblestoned medieval-style town was entirely constructed in the 1990s and 2000s.

The charming storybook building now houses a small police museum.

Locals perched on icy thrones brave frigid temperatures during this bizarre winter tradition.

This secret facility trained seals for the Swedish navy during the Second World War.

It's always game time at Stockholm's only museum devoted solely to video games.

This abandoned urban warfare facility is a dream come true for airsoft and paintball enthusiasts.

An abandoned, deteriorating tuberculosis hospital from the turn of the 20th century.

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

This collection of 80 polarizing foods aims to challenge your subjective notions of repulsion.

A simple stone remembers one of the most menacing horses in the Swedish military.

Located in an old church, this brewery produces a different kind of holy water.

This small town's local tradition is to create the world's tallest ice pillar.

What looks like a birch tree smushed between two pieces of glass often confounds commuters.

An otherworldly, fossil-rich cobble beach holds Viking graves, cairns, and other remains.

A replica of the beloved character's house, modeled after the author's own drawings.

Sound travels strangely in this underground whispering gallery.

The wilderness of northern Sweden is full of shelters to protect people from sounding rockets returning from space.

It was meant to help transport wounded soldiers to a secret underground hospital.

The world's biggest version of the popular Swedish souvenir.

An oil drilling mistake created this fountain that has been spraying water for over 150 years.

A geological wonder that helped fuel myths of trolls and giants.

The indecision over what to place in this square was immortalized with a plaque.

A response to the wrongly placed meridian of the same name.