Rovaniemi, Finland
Rovaniemi's Arctic Circle Border
If you visit Santa's village, you can get your passport stamped to show you crossed into the Arctic Circle.
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Rovaniemi, Finland
If you visit Santa's village, you can get your passport stamped to show you crossed into the Arctic Circle.
Inari, Finland
This disused church, left to the elements of the Arctic Circle's forests is open for exploration.
Rovaniemi, Finland
Roughly 17 million letters to Santa have found their way to this Arctic Circle post office.
Leppävirta, Finland
Hidden deep in a forest is this geological wonder carved by glaciers.
Ruokolahti, Finland
Legend has this precariously placed rock was placed by giants. Science has another explanation.
Imatra, Finland
These Finnish rapids have been attracting tourists for over a hundred years and are now released with the push of a button.
Virolahti, Finland
Fortifications built for a Soviet invasion that never came now sit abandoned in a losing battle against nature.
Tallinn, Estonia
An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.
Neringos savivaldybė, Lithuania
A narrow strip of land is home to the tallest migrating dunes in Europe.
Lithuania
Launch site for nuclear war against Western Europe.
Salantai, Lithuania
Sculpture garden of religious statues made it through Soviet rule.
Meškuičių seniūnija, Lithuania
An old hill fort covered in over 100,000 crosses is a symbol of Lithuanian nationalism and beliefs.
Ketrzyn, Poland
This Nazi ruin was the site where Hitler was almost blown up by a suitcase bomb.
Peenemünde, Germany
The NASA scientists behind Apollo 11 started out developing Nazi weapons at this abandoned German rocket factory.
Binz, Germany
Hitler's bleak vision of relaxation still stands as a mostly abandoned 10,000-room resort complex.
Lelystad, Netherlands
This giant wire frame man sculpture is crouched in contemplation.