Places Egao Wants to Go

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

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

This fantastical icy castle is built anew every winter.

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

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

A lumberjack in Finnish Lapland did not want to cut down his Arctic pines, so he offered them up to be adopted by nature-lovers.

This cairn marks the only place where Central European Time, Eastern European Time, and Further-eastern European Time meet.

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

An art museum inside an active factory.

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

According to the locals, the sands of this secluded Norway beach are infused with gemstone particles.

World's strongest whirlpool.

Large military radio station without transmitting towers.

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

The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

The biblical sculpture honors those who lost their lives, homes and communities to the Chernobyl disaster.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

A vast and unlikely aviation museum kept alive for over 50 years due to one man's tenacity.

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

This strange pyramid is a unique feature of the Austrått Manor.

These circular ruins are all that remain of a 17th-century Arctic whaling outpost.

Citizens of Norway want to gift the peak of Mount Halti to Finland for its 100th birthday.

Thousands of birds nest in the cliffs while arctic foxes prowl below.