Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

Stay overnight in the world's most sleekly designed rabbit hole, free of charge.

A thin pane of glass keeps visitors from sliding off this futuristic skywalk.

Monuments don't get much more metal than these three giant viking swords planted in a Nordic hill.

Walk behind a 50-meter-high waterfall.

One man's exploration of the human form, including the bizarre and delightful "Man Attacked by Babies."

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

A stunning silver lining to global warming's gloomy cloud.

The convergence of two currents makes this a surprisingly pleasant getaway in the Arctic Circle.

An intricately carved Viking church overlooks a glistening fjord.

This "preacher's pulpit" once used for pagan ritual, is home to a new, and dangerous ritual.

This giant boulder is pinched over a 1000-meter abyss by two mountains.

Walk 2,300 feet above the ground on the "Troll's Tongue."

A serpentine highway twists and turns over the treacherous Norwegian Sea.

The people murdered during a 17th-century Norwegian witch hunt have been honored with a pair of stark, modern installations.

The world's northernmost ice hotel.

This one-room museum is dedicated to Norwegian history and jokes.

At the very tippity-top of Europe is a cliff from which you can view the midnight sun.

A lovingly curated curio shop in which the taxidermy wear newspaper party hats, and peanut shells are spread across every surface.

A giant gorilla made of used car tires used to sit sentinel over a Helsinki college campus.

A Finnish artist's unique fauna statuary.

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

A rare octagonal brick beacon on an isolated island in the Baltic.

Extraordinary animals sculpted from leftover junk.

Every summer, an open-air swimming pool appears at the base of a Finnish city's beloved winter attraction.