Places akiraa1 Wants to Go

Research station devoted to mysterious floating lights seen in a Norwegian valley.

This functioning parish church is also the site of many concert performances due to its wonderful acoustics.

What might look like a cliffside sacrificial altar at first glance is actually a stone compass pointing to cities and lighthouses all around the world.

Ruins of two abandoned stations destroyed by the power they sought to harness.

The last fully functional fortress of Germany's World War II Atlantikwall.

The Brutalist building harbors an unusual inverted dome that swoops down over its central sacred room.

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

Art becomes an enchanting part of the environment at this wooded sculpture park.

A naturally occurring tunnel in this Nordic mountain makes it look like it's been shot.

The grounds and buildings of an old wood pulp mill have been transformed into an innovative art park and museum.

The world's largest moose statue towers above the highway between Oslo and Trondheim.

The largest cave in Northern Europe.

St George's Leprosy Museum depicts the gruesome afflictions of those suffering from the disease.

The world's northernmost brewery uses water from a 2,000-year-old glacier to create its beer.

The world's northernmost ice hotel.

Norway's oldest cathedral still in use.

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

A reconstructed farm shows what life was like in Norway 1,500 years ago.

A microbiologist-chef is slinging noodles with hyperlocal Nordic ingredients.

Oslo's historic toboggan run has been letting thrill seekers slide from train stop to train stop for over a century.

World's strongest whirlpool.

Thousands of years of crashing waves gave this mushroom-shaped rock its svelte figure.

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

Longest road tunnel in the world features an air treatment plant and the illusion of daylight.