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

A small island dotted with old, historic Finnish buildings.

This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.

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

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

This museum dedicated to divination also honors a local 10th-century prophetess.

A castle in the Scottish Highlands has been continuously inhabited since the 1300s.

A pagan tradition of draping trees with rags eerily lives on.

The most northern place on the mainland of Great Britain.

The sign marks one of the endpoints to mainland Britain's longest overland travel route.

The ruins of a defunct limestone quarry still haunt this Scottish promontory.

A sea cave with a waterfall and Viking past

The sign announces the Scottish village's cosmic connections, as it's twinned with Glenelg, Mars.

Fifty years of contamination in Scotland's waters.

A pub that is literally in the middle of nowhere, but continues to do business.

From here, the loch appears to take the shape of mainland Scotland.

This macabre monument atop an ancient well gives a nod to a brutal episode in Scottish clan history.

Every September, international competitors flock to a tiny Scottish island's flooded quarries.

The "Bridge Over the Atlantic" lets you cross the waterway in mere seconds.

Geodesic dome luxury retreat in the Scottish Highlands.

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

Nestled atop a wind-swept crag in the Scottish Highlands is a lonely memorial to a beloved hiker.

Nestled amid the peaks and lochs of the Scottish Highlands, this inn and pub has played host to outlaws and ghosts.