This Arctic mining town is home to a cat that's spent years masquerading as a fox.

What might look like a cliffside sacrificial altar at first glance is actually a stone compass pointing to cities and lighthouses all around the world.

The world's largest underwater restaurant is submerged off the southern tip of Norway.

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

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

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

The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.

Stay overnight in the world's most sleekly designed rabbit hole, free of charge.

Cold storage for agricultural biodiversity.

Walk behind a 50-meter-high waterfall.

The convergence of two currents makes this a surprisingly pleasant getaway in the Arctic Circle.

An intricately carved Viking church overlooks a glistening fjord.

A stunning silver lining to global warming's gloomy cloud.

From Coke II to Google Glass, this exhibit features some of the most spectacular commercial flops.

The wilderness of northern Sweden is full of shelters to protect people from sounding rockets returning from space.

This declassified Cold War bunker hosts a large collection of Swedish aircraft.

This trio of stone spires claims to be the only preserved medieval execution site in Europe.

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

This chimerical bridge/tunnel appears to dead end right into the sea.

A golden egg-shaped sauna in the Arctic tundra.

This encrypted monolith protected a secret of Norse mythology by hiding in a church wall for over a millennium.

Large military radio station without transmitting towers.

The last fully functional fortress of Germany's World War II Atlantikwall.

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