Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.

A uniquely lettered street sign marks the corner where the iconic word game was invented.

This small 16th-century church in Athens is almost entirely surrounded by a modern building.

The ruins of an ancient Roman tomb hidden in the basement of a trendy clothing store.

The world's most charming instant portrait studio also happens to be its smallest.

This Norwegian satellite station provides ground services to more satellites than any other facility in the world.

This floating sculpture of ice is a poignant reminder of nature's power.

Large military radio station without transmitting towers.

The rusted hull of a WWII German destroyer pokes above the surface in a Norwegian fjord.

The great polar explorer is remembered in this far northern town, where he embarked on his final expedition.

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

Art becomes an enchanting part of the environment at this wooded sculpture park.

The former home of Norway's greatest romantic composer.

Ruins of two abandoned stations destroyed by the power they sought to harness.

Once the scene of a young boy's home in revolt, this Norwegian island is now home to the world's first "ecological" prison.

Mound of stones marking the burial site of the world's most famous orca.

Europe's only museum solely dedicated to the history of whaling still has a fully-functioning whaling ship.

A little Lady Liberty stands in the Norway town where the copper for the real thing came from.

The Brutalist building harbors an unusual inverted dome that swoops down over its central sacred room.

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

The world's first and only escalator for lazy bicycles and their daunted riders.

The world's largest moose statue towers above the highway between Oslo and Trondheim.

A reconstructed farm shows what life was like in Norway 1,500 years ago.

The painter of "The Scream" is laid to rest under a stoic bust of himself in the humble corner of an Oslo cemetery.