This striking memorial is one of Estonia’s most controversial Soviet leftovers.

This dizzying tower was built to better broadcast the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

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

This restaurant combines two Finnish traditions in one place: warm-weather relaxation and outdoor carpet-cleaning.

Finland's oldest astronomical observatory once played a crucial role in seafaring and timekeeping.

Villas that once served as playgrounds for the rich now fall away in decay.

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

No matter how many times this community-run sauna gets destroyed, it always rises from the ashes.

This building featuring Brutalist architecture has a rich media production history.

Pigduck of Turku.

Collection of nearly 500 concrete figures sculpted by the late Veijo Rönkkönen.

These Finnish rapids have been attracting tourists for over a hundred years and are now released with the push of a button.

This railroad and oil tycoon's lavish estate now stands as a time capsule of the Gilded Age.

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

A small island dotted with old, historic Finnish buildings.

Roughly 17 million letters to Santa have found their way to this Arctic Circle post office.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.

This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.