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Fast food feels like fine dining at this award-winning modern Georgian building.

Underground monastery and fortress.

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

On a small island, a replica of a Finnish village from the Iron Age.

This once-mighty brick factory is now a unique museum experience.

A Finnish artist's unique fauna statuary.

This bed and breakfast is steeped in history and offers guests a unique way to experience nature—glass igloos on a frozen lake.

The tallest lighthouse in the Nordic countries was also the site of a bloody World War II battle.

One of the world's most unusual events combines headbanging and needlework.

Finland's northernmost zoo is home to the country's only polar bears.

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.

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

This modernist island church incorporates the Finnish nature into its worship practices.

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

This disused church, left to the elements of the Arctic Circle's forests is open for exploration.

Finnish lake, and scene of an infamous murder mystery.

Hidden deep in a forest is this geological wonder carved by glaciers.

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

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

The tiny, studious rodents greet visitors to the National Archives of Finland.

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.

In the Hugging Tree Forest, lingonberry marshmallows, hot chocolates, and the best campfire lattes north of the Arctic Circle come to you.

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