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Thousands of birds nest in the cliffs while arctic foxes prowl below.

These circular ruins are all that remain of a 17th-century Arctic whaling outpost.

This record shop and unofficial black metal museum is an ode to Oslo's heaviest musical export.

History, science or architecture fans will love this hidden gem in Oslo.

Once silenced for being off-key, this bell has found a new voice as an interactive public artwork.

The painter of "The Scream" is laid to rest under a stoic bust of himself in the humble corner of an Oslo cemetery.

Charming small streets lined with well preserved wooden houses dating to the 18th and 19th century.

Centuries before masks and sanitizer, Oslo’s oldest public monument remembers its last plague dead.

Located within military grounds, this one-legged bronze soldier poignantly showcases the human cost of war.

A cannonball fired during a war against Sweden is wedged in the wall of this old post office.

In downtown Oslo, a menacing and terrifying relief clings to a church wall.

This unlikely 1980s relic at a bus station recalls the New York real estate tycoon before his political career.

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

This Norwegian satellite station provides ground services to more satellites than any other facility in the world.

This Arctic storage facility is a secure backup for agricultural biodiversity.

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

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

Here ended one of the most ambitious North Pole expeditions in Arctic history.