The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

The scars of World War II are preserved on its walls.

The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.

A golden egg-shaped sauna in the Arctic tundra.

A giant gorilla made of used car tires used to sit sentinel over a Helsinki college campus.

This restaurant combines two Finnish traditions in one place: warm-weather relaxation and outdoor carpet-cleaning.

An incredibly durable timepiece glows beneath shoppers' feet.

A Finnish artist's unique fauna statuary.

Extraordinary animals sculpted from leftover junk.

This cairn marks the only place where Central European Time, Eastern European Time, and Further-eastern European Time meet.

One of the world's most unusual events combines headbanging and needlework.

A rare octagonal brick beacon on an isolated island in the Baltic.

Finland's oldest astronomical observatory once played a crucial role in seafaring and timekeeping.

A lumberjack in Finnish Lapland did not want to cut down his Arctic pines, so he offered them up to be adopted by nature-lovers.

More than 200 eclectic sculptures surround the artist's home.

No matter how many times this community-run sauna gets destroyed, it always rises from the ashes.

The church's remarkable frescoes incorporate Finnish artist Hugh Simberg's trademark themes of death and the supernatural.

This lonely rock has been turned into a character loved and feared by children.

Pigduck of Turku.

The tiny, studious rodents greet visitors to the National Archives of Finland.

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

If you visit Santa's village, you can get your passport stamped to show you crossed into the Arctic Circle.

The etchings on this narrow channel between two islands bear witness to maritime travelers who have passed through since the Middle Ages.

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