Oslo, Norway
St. Hallvard's Church and Monastery
The Brutalist building harbors an unusual inverted dome that swoops down over its central sacred room.
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Oslo, Norway
The Brutalist building harbors an unusual inverted dome that swoops down over its central sacred room.
Oslo, Norway
Oslo's historic toboggan run has been letting thrill seekers slide from train stop to train stop for over a century.
Oslo, Norway
One thousand trees were planted in Norway to be used to print books a century from now.
Oslo, Norway
A microbiologist-chef is slinging noodles with hyperlocal Nordic ingredients.
Oslo, Norway
The painter of "The Scream" is laid to rest under a stoic bust of himself in the humble corner of an Oslo cemetery.
Oslo, Norway
In downtown Oslo, a menacing and terrifying relief clings to a church wall.
Oslo, Norway
This record shop and unofficial black metal museum is an ode to Oslo's heaviest musical export.
Oslo, Norway
This floating sculpture of ice is a poignant reminder of nature's power.
Movatn, Norway
The remains of a German plane still sit in the Norwegian wood where it crashed in 1942.
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Prowl through this sprawling bazaar under a massive Soviet-era dome for delicious eats.
Luras, Italy
At an estimated 3,800 years old, this olive tree is one of the oldest on earth.
Arzachena, Italy
Mysterious tombstones thought to be remnants of Atlantis.
Capo Testa, Italy
Windblown rock formations in an ancient Roman quarry.
Castelsardo, Italy
This weird, elephant-shaped rock also hosts two ancient tombs.
Codrongianos, Italy
A striped 12th-century basilica sits in the countryside of Sardinia.
S'Archittu, Italy
The titular "little arch" near this Italian resort is one of the most popular diving spots in the country.
Masua, Italy
This cliff-face port is considered a masterpiece of mining engineering.
Iglesias, Italy
On the coast of Sardinia, a once-great mining village is finding new life as a coastal resort town.
Iglesias, Italy
A former mining village that now operates as an open-air museum.
San Sperate, Italy
A collection of sculptures that explore what's at stake when nature is thrown out of balance.
Ussana, Italy
An eerie gravel road full of shards of red bricks leads to the ruins of a deserted factory.
Cagliari, Italy
A collection of wax anatomy by the great sculptor Clemente Susini.
Tallinn, Estonia
This stoic bronze soldier stands as a symbol of Russian sacrifice or Soviet oppression, or maybe both.
Tallinn, Estonia
A large boulder was declared a local landmark by a popular vlogger.