An art project designed to encourage people to explore and investigate their surroundings more closely

In a city of wooden houses, this watchtower was vital for early fire detection.

A museum dedicated to Norwegian music, old and new alike.

These 4,444 wooden steps straight up a mountain were built to serve a hydroelectric power station but these days, they're mostly used by hikers.

An opportunity to walk in the footsteps of Noble Peace Prize winners.

The iconic blonde bombshell has a familial connection to this town in southern Norway.

Local legends say that a giant who tried to destroy a nearby church lived in this rock cave.

Once the scene of a young boy's home in revolt, this Norwegian island is now home to the world's first "ecological" prison.

This handsomely carved wooden church is more than 800 years old.

This roadside attraction looks like a flying saucer parked atop the tundra.

The grounds and buildings of an old wood pulp mill have been transformed into an innovative art park and museum.

Ruins of two abandoned stations destroyed by the power they sought to harness.

In downtown Oslo, a menacing and terrifying relief clings to a church wall.

The world's northernmost brewery uses water from a 2,000-year-old glacier to create its beer.

Norway's oldest cathedral still in use.

Thousands of years of crashing waves gave this mushroom-shaped rock its svelte figure.

Longest road tunnel in the world features an air treatment plant and the illusion of daylight.

This abandoned mining village was predicted to resist decay longer than any other modern human settlement.

At the very tippity-top of Europe is a cliff from which you can view the midnight sun.

In the northernmost city in the world, it's illegal to be buried because it’s too cold for bodies to decompose.

A thin pane of glass keeps visitors from sliding off this futuristic skywalk.

Across the Pacific in a raft, a museum dedicated to Thor Heyerdahl's now legendary expedition.

For six months of the year, three giant mirrors direct a pool of sunshine onto this otherwise occluded town.

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