A favorite with sightseers, this Norwegian funicular provides easy access to a stunning view of Bergen and its environs.

The former home of Norway's greatest romantic composer.

Walk behind a 50-meter-high waterfall.

A little Lady Liberty stands in the Norway town where the copper for the real thing came from.

Norway's oldest cathedral still in use.

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

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

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

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

The world's largest underwater restaurant is submerged off the southern tip of Norway.

The last fully functional fortress of Germany's World War II Atlantikwall.

An abandoned building that once tightened a power line that stretched across Messina Strait.

Its founder calls it a "proletariat art renaissance".

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

The largest wooden building in the world now houses a fascinating collection of aircraft.

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

This abandoned Antarctic research station is a Soviet ghost frozen in time.

Hundreds of stone stairs and a winding medieval bridge connect this haunting Spanish island to the mainland.

A giant gun barrel in Barbados that once hoped to shoot outer space with science.

It appears as if a man is standing behind this giant airport clock, painting the hands in real time.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.