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

The world's northernmost botanic garden has 25 collections of plants from arctic and alpine regions.

This functioning parish church is also the site of many concert performances due to its wonderful acoustics.

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 island castle now hosts a world-famous opera festival.

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

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

A stick-sprouting statue watching a duo of disembodied dancing deities.