A long-disputed lighthouse built on the wrong side of a Finnish/Swedish island.

If there is one thing you don't want to be in Sweden during Christmas, it's a Yule Goat.

A little church on a tiny island looks like something from a fairy tale.

Crawling into this primordial cave may feel disconcertingly familiar.

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

A lovingly curated curio shop in which the taxidermy wear newspaper party hats, and peanut shells are spread across every surface.

This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.

Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.

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

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

A cathedral resurrected from the ashes of one of Europe's greatest urban fires.

Pigduck of Turku.

These Finnish rapids have been attracting tourists for over a hundred years and are now released with the push of a button.

Research station devoted to mysterious floating lights seen in a Norwegian valley.

This statue, deep in a Swedish forest, is all alone, just like the renowned recluse would have wanted.

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

The world's first and only escalator for lazy bicycles and their daunted riders.

This massive Trojan ursine was built to be a new tourist symbol for a small Swedish town.

A Finnish artist's unique fauna statuary.

Legend has this precariously placed rock was placed by giants. Science has another explanation.

Monastery, army base, and infamous Soviet Gulag in the far Russian north.

No one knows why ancient labyrinths were built on this tiny northern island.

This intricately spiralling forest was created as a monumental work of art.