Finland's northernmost zoo is home to the country's only polar bears.

A unique sculpture calls the outside of this steakhouse home.

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

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

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

This church also serves as a lighthouse complete with a beacon.

No matter how many times this community-run sauna gets destroyed, it always rises from the ashes.

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

Dedicated to the outnumbered Finnish forces who pushed back Soviet forces during the conflict.

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

This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.

This ten-ton fruit sculpture celebrates the Finland homeland.

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

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

In an area known in Bratislava’s postal history, this sculpture sits equipped with a functional postbox.

Launched by Napoleon's soldiers more than 200 years ago, a cannonball remains embedded in the tower wall.

Huge stairway leads to this massive gallery.

The most visited pilgrimage site in Armenia once held a saint in a pit for 13 years.

An underground world of gorgeous, palatial metro stations designed as a nuclear shelter complex.

Witness traditional silk production in the Uzbek city that's been a hub of sericulture for over a thousand years.

Giant cauldrons overflow with Uzbekistan's favorite rice dish at this cavernous dining hall.

One of the most ethnically diverse spots on the planet.

These "50 Fortresses" have been unearthed in the ancient oasis of Khwarezm.

This "tower of death" has acted as an observatory, a religious hub, and an executioner's lair.