Places magratnj Wants to Go

The convergence of two currents makes this a surprisingly pleasant getaway in the Arctic Circle.

An intricately carved Viking church overlooks a glistening fjord.

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

A serpentine highway twists and turns over the treacherous Norwegian Sea.

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

This giant boulder is pinched over a 1000-meter abyss by two mountains.

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

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

A reconstructed farm shows what life was like in Norway 1,500 years ago.

Norway's oldest cathedral still in use.

Monuments don't get much more metal than these three giant viking swords planted in a Nordic hill.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

Hidden within a Gulf Coast port city is a wonderfully eclectic museum whose beginnings were housed in a bank window.

Tucked away in a corner of a Maine general store there was a museum devoted to an equally beloved and reviled local soft drink.

This waterfront museum in Maine is dedicated to the history of the smoked-herring trade.

An unsolved murder victim's grave which may or may not contain her body.

The largest tidal whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

The grave of Mary Nasson is shrouded by witchy legends.

The highest point in Maine is a grand gift to the state citizens that also happens to be one end of the Appalachian Trail.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.

This shack nestled in a 120-acre forest of maple trees in Mont-Rigaud is a wonderland of sugary syrup.