Places vmhenshaw Wants to Go

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

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.

Rent out a glass igloo to watch the Northern Lights like you live in the future.

In a country where driving from one town to another is literally impossible, this small stretch of gravel is a remarkable feat.

Neither bomb blasts nor heartbeats escape the giant ears of this super sci-fi Arctic outpost.

One Greenland town turned itself into an open air sculpture gallery with the help of a series of traditional stone artworks.

No longer the only, but definitely the oldest, fountain in Greenland.

Walrus skulls and narwhal bones were found here while excavating a 900-year old church.

Thousands of letters to Santa get delivered to this mailbox in Greenland.

An experimental forest at the foreground of arboreal science is also the canary in the coal mine for climate change.

This remote research station sits amid the second-largest ice sheet on the planet.

These eight mummies are the best-preserved human remains ever discovered in North America.

Small Island off the coast of Greenland.

The world's northernmost flowers cling tenuously to life on desolate Kaffeklubben Island.

The 3.8 billion-year-old rock proves that tectonic plates may have been shifting longer than we thought.

A surprisingly beautiful abandoned World War II military base in East Greenland.

This mysterious, medieval cathedral remains unbuilt but fiercely protected.

Despite finally receiving electricity in 1970, this tiny town is now deserted.

In Faroese legend, this sinister horse-shaped beast lures unsuspecting passersby only to drown them in the lake.

The abandoned village of Skarð aptly illustrates the idiom "Don't put all your eggs in one basket."

This remote island village was in danger of depopulating completely until a tunnel was built to connect it to the rest of the world .

The largest lake in the Faroe Islands seems to be held hundreds of feet above sea level thanks to an optical illusion.

This isolated structure beckons adventurers with sublime views of the Faroe Islands.