Places HanaSolo Wants to Go

This student-run nightclub was originally a World War II bomb shelter.

This handsomely carved wooden church is more than 800 years old.

A small Oslo museum dedicated to failed products, bad ideas, overhyped inventions, and the strange lessons hidden inside them.

A microbiologist-chef is slinging noodles with hyperlocal Nordic ingredients.

A memorial to 350 people burned at the stake for witchcraft.

Watch a magnificent, ever-changing colorscape inside James Turrell's immersive work of art.

A living museum working to keep the traditions of building and repairing handmade wooden boats, ropemaking, and blacksmithing alive.

The largest cave in Northern Europe.

On a tiny island in northwestern Norway, one of the country's few remaining original stave churches.

For six months of the year, three giant mirrors direct a pool of sunshine onto this otherwise occluded town.

These 4,444 wooden steps straight up a mountain were built to serve a hydroelectric power station but these days, they're mostly used by hikers.

One of the most breathtaking railways in Europe also takes one of the steepest climbs, from fjord to mountain plateau.

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

At this concrete bunker on the Trondheim fjord, secrets lie above and below the water's surface.

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

A cannonball fired during a war against Sweden is wedged in the wall of this old post office.

Centuries before masks and sanitizer, Oslo’s oldest public monument remembers its last plague dead.

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

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

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

Here ended one of the most ambitious North Pole expeditions in Arctic history.

A Viking-style brewpub named for a Norse sea giant, in the heart of fjord country.

This solitary convex mirror sculpture at an abandoned ferry station at the edge of a fjord reflects the scenery back at the viewer.

The hillside where Edvard Munch experienced the panic attack that inspired “The Scream” offers one of the most striking evening views in Oslo.