Places BryanKnight Wants to Go

This modernist island church incorporates the Finnish nature into its worship practices.

Fortifications built for a Soviet invasion that never came now sit abandoned in a losing battle against nature.

The smallest restaurant in the world.

This disused church, left to the elements of the Arctic Circle's forests is open for exploration.

Finnish lake, and scene of an infamous murder mystery.

A 246-foot-high revolving restaurant rises unexpectedly from a forested Finnish hilltop.

If you visit Santa's village, you can get your passport stamped to show you crossed into the Arctic Circle.

A beautiful Arctic museum and nature center preserves the culture of the Sámi people.

Roughly 17 million letters to Santa have found their way to this Arctic Circle post office.

Hidden deep in a forest is this geological wonder carved by glaciers.

A little-known sculpture park of contemporary environmental art in a Lapland forest.

Crawling into this primordial cave may feel disconcertingly familiar.

A replica of the home of a famous fictional troll family.

Quality time with reindeer in the stunning scenery of their natural Lappish habitat above the Arctic Circle.

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

This lake-bound geographical marker sits at the point where three European countries intersect.

Menacing or in memoriam, the Silent People and their meaning are left to interpretation.

Legend has this precariously placed rock was placed by giants. Science has another explanation.

This fantastical icy castle is built anew every winter.

Rent out a glass igloo to watch the Northern Lights like you live in the future.

Designed to represent the mushroom clouds the artists witnessed during nuclear testing.

The American author whose "rags-to-riches" stories were popular during the Gilded Age.

This stone in Lexington honors a formerly enslaved man who fought during the American Revolution.

The monument is inscribed, "To Sagamore John and those Mystic Indians Whose Bones Lie Here”.