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

One of the oldest family businesses in Reykjavík serves lamb-based hot dogs.

An artist's mausoleum with a haunting echo.

A stunning architectural yet functional feat, towering over Oslo.

The final resting place of the father of modern biological taxonomy.

Uppsala's adorable feline sign celebrates a popular children's book set in the Swedish city.

A rare rune stone dedicated to a woman.

This functioning parish church is also the site of many concert performances due to its wonderful acoustics.

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

Mysterious man-made rock piles form an ancient cemetery on this rocky beach in Norway.

A Gothic-inspired fish market is Gothenburg's best place to find loaves and fishes.

Preserved "bog person" that is over 2,000 years old.

This Danish rock field is actually a sprawling ancient cemetery holding the bodies of 700 Vikings.

Tiring of digging out the door to this church for every service, it was eventually abandoned to the sands.

The northernmost point in Denmark is a turbulent sandbar created by two clashing seas.

An abandoned lighthouse awaits its destiny: being buried under shifting sand.

A Danish fisherman spent 25 years covering nearly every inch of his home with tens of thousands of shells as a gift to his wife.

Four alabaster giants contemplate the tides on the shore of Denmark.

An enormous playhouse designed to look like 21 stacked Lego bricks, with another 25 million colorful Legos inside.

Mounds, rune stones, and a 1,000-year-old church, left behind by Denmark's first two kings.

The medieval "dragon" on an Austrian city's coat-of-arms comes to life in a fountain.

The world's most important buildings shrunk to a tiny size.

This spire on an Austrian mountain is wrapped around a long spiral slide and has the world's tallest wooden observation deck.

The world's oldest Jewish library was founded by Sephardic Jews in 17th century Amsterdam.