Descend 100 meters underground to explore Finland’s mining history.

The last surviving submarine from a strange chapter of Finnish history.

This restaurant combines two Finnish traditions in one place: warm-weather relaxation and outdoor carpet-cleaning.

These enormous, stern-faced statues greet visitors with lanterns, and sometimes costumes.

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

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

A small island dotted with old, historic Finnish buildings.

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.

This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

An unexpected treasure trove of military oddities, Turkish interior design, and North Korean art.

The medieval center of the Islamic world was also once the seat of Saladin's sultanate.

Standing atop 2nd-century Roman ruins, this church is one of the oldest and most iconic in Old Cairo.