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

These enormous, stern-faced statues greet visitors with lanterns, and sometimes costumes.

In the waters outside Helsinki, a tiny island once used as a military outpost now welcomes visitors.

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

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

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

These 5,000-year-old cave paintings provide a glimpse into prehistoric Finnish life.

This cairn marks the only place where Central European Time, Eastern European Time, and Further-eastern European Time meet.

No matter how many times this community-run sauna gets destroyed, it always rises from the ashes.

Fortifications built for a Soviet invasion that never came now sit abandoned in a losing battle against nature.

If you visit Santa's village, you can get your passport stamped to show you crossed into the Arctic Circle.

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

Finnish lake, and scene of an infamous murder mystery.

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

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

Crawling into this primordial cave may feel disconcertingly familiar.

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

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

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

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

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

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

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

This fantastical icy castle is built anew every winter.