Places bartholomej Wants to Go

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

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

Thousands of miniature bronze sculptures have taken over this city square creating a unique art installation.

A serpentine highway twists and turns over the treacherous Norwegian Sea.

Mound of stones marking the burial site of the world's most famous orca.

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.

A stoic sculpture that overlooks the waters.

Norway has built what may be the world's most beautiful public toilet.

World's strongest whirlpool.

The rusted hull of a WWII German destroyer pokes above the surface in a Norwegian fjord.

The giant club-wielding wildman stands proud as the symbol of Swedish Lapland.

The concrete skeletons of an abandoned Swedish town hide among the trees.

A former top secret military tunnel is now stuffed with snow and open year-round to skiers.

Winter roadtrips are a little more exciting on this seasonal, slippery expansion of Sweden's national highway system.

The world's oldest individual clonal tree looks like a wimp despite standing tall for 9,550 years.

This Swedish village shows off its most well-known products in a big way.

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

The unique design of this former quarry provides ideal acoustics for concerts.

This restaurant gives a new meaning to farm-to-table cuisine.

The rock carving that became an internet meme.

This Swedish automobile graveyard is a beautiful gallery of decay, but woe be to any who would steal a souvenir.

The world's biggest floating museum in Gothenburg, Sweden.