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

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

A 246-foot-high revolving restaurant rises unexpectedly from a forested Finnish hilltop.

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

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

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

An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.

Rent out a glass igloo to watch the Northern Lights like you live in the future.

Two large eyes painted anonymously on a mountain overlooking the city pay homage to an old legend.

This water goblin statue represents a 19th-century urban legend about a haunted canal that became a Japanese idiom.

On this wooded path, a stained-glass window creates a spellbinding forest cathedral.

You can enjoy a (possibly haunted) stay at the medieval Norman castle that was once a favorite hunting lodge of King John.

Legend says this fabled well held part of a mythical Norse tree.

This oddly beautiful water cistern is a techno-temple to the wet stuff and a multimedia masterpiece.

Dakota legend claims this locally iconic pinnacle was once part of a sacred burial site that was cleaved in two.

Nestled in an unassuming residential area, this "forbidden forest" is rumored to spirit away those who dare to enter.

In one of the world's smallest countries, a royal's personal winery is open to the public.

An eatery within the Minneapolis American Indian Center writes colonial ingredients out of the story of Native American cuisine.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

At a Bangkok bistro, one pot of beef stew has been cooking non-stop for more than 45 years.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

Pick up all of the cosmic knick-knacks under the sun or take a creative writing course, all offered in this novelty storefront.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

A journey through 430 years of bulbiculture in the Netherlands.