Places Jes Wants to Go

Norway has built what may be the world's most beautiful public toilet.

An artist's mausoleum with a haunting echo.

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

Walk behind a 50-meter-high waterfall.

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

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

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

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

A lumberjack in Finnish Lapland did not want to cut down his Arctic pines, so he offered them up to be adopted by nature-lovers.

More than 200 eclectic sculptures surround the artist's home.

The church's remarkable frescoes incorporate Finnish artist Hugh Simberg's trademark themes of death and the supernatural.

The last permanent exhibit dedicated to the Soviet leader.

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

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

A cathedral resurrected from the ashes of one of Europe's greatest urban fires.

A 246-foot-high revolving restaurant rises unexpectedly from a forested Finnish hilltop.

The smallest restaurant in the world.

A beautiful Arctic museum and nature center preserves the culture of the Sámi people.

A little-known sculpture park of contemporary environmental art in a Lapland forest.

This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.

Finnish lake, and scene of an infamous murder mystery.

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

Quality time with reindeer in the stunning scenery of their natural Lappish habitat above the Arctic Circle.

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