Norheimsund, Norway
Hardanger Fartøyvernsenter (Hardanger Maritime Museum)
A living museum working to keep the traditions of building and repairing handmade wooden boats, ropemaking, and blacksmithing alive.
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Norheimsund, Norway
A living museum working to keep the traditions of building and repairing handmade wooden boats, ropemaking, and blacksmithing alive.
Kvam, Norway
Walk behind a 50-meter-high waterfall.
Luster, Norway
A stunning silver lining to global warming's gloomy cloud.
Aurland, Norway
Longest road tunnel in the world features an air treatment plant and the illusion of daylight.
Aurland, Norway
A thin pane of glass keeps visitors from sliding off this futuristic skywalk.
Norway
Mound of stones marking the burial site of the world's most famous orca.
Vihals, Norway
Local legends say that a giant who tried to destroy a nearby church lived in this rock cave.
Trondheim, Norway
At this concrete bunker on the Trondheim fjord, secrets lie above and below the water's surface.
Ragunda, Sweden
Said to be one of Sweden's most haunted places, this vicarage once even attracted a ghost-busting priest.
Storuman, Sweden
The giant club-wielding wildman stands proud as the symbol of Swedish Lapland.
Älvsbyn V, Sweden
The concrete skeletons of an abandoned Swedish town hide among the trees.
Boden N, Sweden
A series of modernist treehouse hotel rooms grace the outskirts of an Arctic forest.
Luleå, Sweden
The world's first purpose-built indoor shopping mall opened in Sweden in 1955.
Gammelstad, Sweden
A medieval village, with red wooden cottages around a stone church, stands as a well-preserved example of a settlement type that was once common in northern Sweden.
Enontekiö, Finland
This lake-bound geographical marker sits at the point where three European countries intersect.
Esrange, Sweden
The wilderness of northern Sweden is full of shelters to protect people from sounding rockets returning from space.
Kiruna, Sweden
The world's largest underground iron ore mine.
Narvik, Norway
The rusted hull of a WWII German destroyer pokes above the surface in a Norwegian fjord.
Hammerfest, Norway
This one-room museum is dedicated to Norwegian history and jokes.
Nordkapp, Norway
At the very tippity-top of Europe is a cliff from which you can view the midnight sun.
Nordkapp, Norway
This beloved wartime mascot has been honored with not just one, but two statues.
Ranua, Finland
Finland's northernmost zoo is home to the country's only polar bears.
Oulu, Finland
This lonely rock has been turned into a character loved and feared by children.
Helsinki, Finland
The tiny, studious rodents greet visitors to the National Archives of Finland.