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.

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.

This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.

This former hospital was once one of the oldest mental health facilities in Europe.

Hundreds of signs pointing to the birthplaces of current Helsinki residents form stalactites on the ceiling of the cave-like Kamppi metro station.

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

This island only appears in winter once the surrounding waters have frozen over.

The last permanent exhibit dedicated to the Soviet leader.

The church's remarkable frescoes incorporate Finnish artist Hugh Simberg's trademark themes of death and the supernatural.

This misspelled graffiti reappears every time it is removed.

The grandest stage for the world's foremost masters of invisible instruments.

An incredibly durable timepiece glows beneath shoppers' feet.

This lonely rock has been turned into a character loved and feared by children.